> Tenuous grounds -- Microsoft is in effect claiming nobody could have reverse engineered their code, or cracked it, so fast, therefore they must have cheated by having access to Microsoft's original sources.
I have actually noticed a few times lately where the narrator will pronounce words like this differently during the same episode. I recall a recent one I saw where he said "meehtane" a couple of times in the intro of a segment, then "mehthane" once during an explanation of how someone's plan is going to work, and then "meethane" again later in the episode.
> The nice thing about the Amiga GURU is that you could debug the system on the serial port while it was in a GURU state.
Yep. Hit left mouse button to continue, but if you hit the right mouse button it would start a debugger on the seiral port. I found you could often just type "g" (go/continue, I think) and the system would often continue working well enough to save anything important before rebooting.
I went the opposite way. I'm right handed, but when I set up my first dedicated gaming PC for playing quake, the only desk space I had free was to put the mouse on the left (but not reverse the buttons). So I always play FPS's left handed now. I normally mouse right handed otherwise, though I can mouse around just as well with the left if it's more convenient now too...like if I have to use a left-handed person's computer at work. The mouse buttons being reversed drives me nuts though...I can't get used to that.:)
Yep. I put a 2700k bulb of an equivalent wattage rating in one of the two identical lamps on either side of the living room couch. You can't tell which one is CFL, and which one is incandescent.
I heard that back before they invented DVD's, it was possible to do this with rented movies on tape using an ancient device developed in the 70's, cryptically named a "VCR". So the rental business might not end quite as quickly as you think...
Right. But removing Safari does completely remove the application itself, unlike Windows where all it does is remove the links to the application. You can still start it by several other methods. Try to start Safari after removing the application and you won't be able to. You can install/run another application that uses the same rendering engine, but you can't run Safari.
> Personally, I see it as stupid to have a console that supports 1080p currently being that I can't buy a HDTV that supports 1080p at a reasonable price
How much did a HDTV that supported 720p or 1080i cost when the PS2 came out, 6 years ago? I bet most people would not have considered them reasonably priced considering the lack of content available at the time. But technology has improved and prices have come down...and people are still using PS2's, now on HDTV displays.
I seem to recall some interview where they claimed the PS3 would have a 10 year lifespan, so it's not unreasonable to assume 1080p will be commonplace well before that.
I wouldn't be surprised if it used under 10 watts with the drive powered down, which I hope would be the case when it's not in use. They say it's a 7200rpm drive, but not whether it's 2.5" and 3.5" (and they show several redundant shots of the outside, but none of the inside even though they say they opened it up). The 7200rpm 3.5" [SP]ATA hard drives in my boxes at home require about 10W each, which would probably more than double it's power usage with the drive.
If you just want updates, upgrade to 7.3 and use fedoralegacy.org updates. (Though it looks like they are going to discontinue them at the end of the year. It looks like it may be time to consider upgrading, if you don't want to do your own security updates...)
There are a few other repos, but it looks like they are in the process of merging their repositories to rpmforge.net. There's a package list here, and links to the 3 seperate repositories:
> AFAIK, nor yast nor RedHat eq. is not as powerful and stable as apt-get, so no, it is not just about features, but it is about features done WELL.
I find it funny that everyone says apt-get is what makes Debian great. I've used apt-get for years on Redhat. I'd say it's just as stable as on Debian. Sure, it didn't come installed by the OS but it only took one simple command to install it.
> AMD has to change their socket all the time because they bring the memory bus to the socket. Want to go from DDR to DDR2? AMD has to change their socket. Want to go to FB-DIMMs? New socket.
Not like it really matters. When was the last time you upgraded your motherboard without upgrading your CPU? The other way around is much more common. Personally, I just assume that by the time I want to upgrade my CPU, technology will have advanced such that I need a new motherboard and RAM anyway. Since I've never built a computer less than a year apart (and usually not less than 2 years, except in the case of failures), this has always been true.
I take it you missed this little thing commonly referred to as the Woodcrest Xeon. AKA, the Core 2 version of the Xeon. (The official name is just Xeon, just like the P4 Xeon and P3 Xeon...) Xeon is Intels chip brand for the workstation/server market.
Besides that, AMD sells plenty of dual core Athlon 64's for desktop use in addition to it's Opteron server/workstation line. It's only a matter of time before quad core shows up there as well. Intel is claiming they will have quad core Cores around the same timeframe as well.
Download any X app which does not use autoconfig, recompile, watch it fail when the hard-coded path to/usr/X11R6 in the makefile doesn't exist. (or the RPM spec file, or the slackbuild script...)
Sure, the binaries aren't broken (though I managed to find a few source files with includes with hard coded/usr/X11R6/include paths in them), but it's still a pain.
Yonah ("Core") is not 64-bit. Merom (Core 2) is 64-bit, but there are no Macs out with Merom yet. The Mac Pro is the first Intel mac with a 64-bit CPU. (Unless you count the Developer Preview boxes which had P4's with EM64T.)
> I see this as bad coding, plain and simple. Why not just make it impossible to add vehicles to the garage when the license expires?...because a bunch of people who can't use their cars at all are going to put a lot more pressure on the lot owner to resolve the situation quickly than those who just need to find a new place to park.
I don't think it's bad coding at all. Evil maybe, since it's certainly not the car owner's fault, but not bad coding.
apt-get is not a package manager. I think you mean Debian's dpkg is the one we should go with.
Of course, apt-get works just fine in Redhat/Fedora too...except on x86_64, since it doesn't support multiple architectures on the same system. There, you'll have to use yum instead. What does one do on Debian/Ubuntu when they want to install i386 packages on an x86_64 system?
Agreed. I actually thought the third book was the best of the series. The second wasn't all that interesting, but is pretty much required reading for the events leading up to the third. (You could almost view it as one long book, split in half.) However, after that, it was all downhill...WAY downhill.
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Last year in Illinois they just doubled the price of cash tolls, and kept Ipass tolls the same price. You pay a $10 deposit for the transponder, but over time you will save money in the long run over cash. Chances are that it will save the government money in the long run as well, since they need to pay less toll booth operators, and less lanes are required when you can just keep driving 80^H^H55 through the toll plaza without slowing/stopping.
Of course, they do require you to give them your license plate # to activate the trasnponder, so tracking you is already easy. The terms of service when I got mine were pretty privacy-friendly. Of course, that's the way to get people to get hooked on it now, so they can change them later...
Somehow I doubt that defense would hold up in court, if it were the RIAA suing you for filesharing. "But I didn't give them written permission to download those MP3s from me!"
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> Very true, I pesonally would never own a PDA, but I am sure you won't find one running UNIX or BSD.
You can run OpenBSD on the Sharp Zaurus.
http://www.openbsd.com/zaurus.html
> Tenuous grounds -- Microsoft is in effect claiming nobody could have reverse engineered their code, or cracked it, so fast, therefore they must have cheated by having access to Microsoft's original sources.
Sounds more like SCO's tactics than the RIAA's...
> You certainly seem to love calling attention to the fact that you live in San Francisco.
Obviously it's because there is so much to see and do there, noone will ever notice her on the street...
I have actually noticed a few times lately where the narrator will pronounce words like this differently during the same episode. I recall a recent one I saw where he said "meehtane" a couple of times in the intro of a segment, then "mehthane" once during an explanation of how someone's plan is going to work, and then "meethane" again later in the episode.
> You know, the beauty of digital media (like LaserDisc) is that you can do a bit for bit copy and not lose anything.
Except that LaserDisc is not digital.
> The nice thing about the Amiga GURU is that you could debug the system on the serial port while it was in a GURU state.
Yep. Hit left mouse button to continue, but if you hit the right mouse button it would start a debugger on the seiral port. I found you could often just type "g" (go/continue, I think) and the system would often continue working well enough to save anything important before rebooting.
I went the opposite way. I'm right handed, but when I set up my first dedicated gaming PC for playing quake, the only desk space I had free was to put the mouse on the left (but not reverse the buttons). So I always play FPS's left handed now. I normally mouse right handed otherwise, though I can mouse around just as well with the left if it's more convenient now too...like if I have to use a left-handed person's computer at work. The mouse buttons being reversed drives me nuts though...I can't get used to that. :)
Yep. I put a 2700k bulb of an equivalent wattage rating in one of the two identical lamps on either side of the living room couch. You can't tell which one is CFL, and which one is incandescent.
I heard that back before they invented DVD's, it was possible to do this with rented movies on tape using an ancient device developed in the 70's, cryptically named a "VCR". So the rental business might not end quite as quickly as you think...
Right. But removing Safari does completely remove the application itself, unlike Windows where all it does is remove the links to the application. You can still start it by several other methods. Try to start Safari after removing the application and you won't be able to. You can install/run another application that uses the same rendering engine, but you can't run Safari.
> Personally, I see it as stupid to have a console that supports 1080p currently being that I can't buy a HDTV that supports 1080p at a reasonable price
How much did a HDTV that supported 720p or 1080i cost when the PS2 came out, 6 years ago? I bet most people would not have considered them reasonably priced considering the lack of content available at the time. But technology has improved and prices have come down...and people are still using PS2's, now on HDTV displays.
I seem to recall some interview where they claimed the PS3 would have a 10 year lifespan, so it's not unreasonable to assume 1080p will be commonplace well before that.
I wouldn't be surprised if it used under 10 watts with the drive powered down, which I hope would be the case when it's not in use. They say it's a 7200rpm drive, but not whether it's 2.5" and 3.5" (and they show several redundant shots of the outside, but none of the inside even though they say they opened it up). The 7200rpm 3.5" [SP]ATA hard drives in my boxes at home require about 10W each, which would probably more than double it's power usage with the drive.
If you just want updates, upgrade to 7.3 and use fedoralegacy.org updates. (Though it looks like they are going to discontinue them at the end of the year. It looks like it may be time to consider upgrading, if you don't want to do your own security updates...)
There are a few other repos, but it looks like they are in the process of merging their repositories to rpmforge.net. There's a package list here, and links to the 3 seperate repositories:
http://dag.wieers.com/home-made/apt/rpmforge.php
DAG provides packages for RH7, but not all of the others do.
There's also another potentially useful Yum repo run by NORLUG:
http://norlug.org/rpms/
> AFAIK, nor yast nor RedHat eq. is not as powerful and stable as apt-get, so no, it is not just about features, but it is about features done WELL.
I find it funny that everyone says apt-get is what makes Debian great. I've used apt-get for years on Redhat. I'd say it's just as stable as on Debian. Sure, it didn't come installed by the OS but it only took one simple command to install it.
> AMD has to change their socket all the time because they bring the memory bus to the socket. Want to go from DDR to DDR2? AMD has to change their socket. Want to go to FB-DIMMs? New socket.
Not like it really matters. When was the last time you upgraded your motherboard without upgrading your CPU? The other way around is much more common. Personally, I just assume that by the time I want to upgrade my CPU, technology will have advanced such that I need a new motherboard and RAM anyway. Since I've never built a computer less than a year apart (and usually not less than 2 years, except in the case of failures), this has always been true.
I take it you missed this little thing commonly referred to as the Woodcrest Xeon. AKA, the Core 2 version of the Xeon. (The official name is just Xeon, just like the P4 Xeon and P3 Xeon...) Xeon is Intels chip brand for the workstation/server market.
Besides that, AMD sells plenty of dual core Athlon 64's for desktop use in addition to it's Opteron server/workstation line. It's only a matter of time before quad core shows up there as well. Intel is claiming they will have quad core Cores around the same timeframe as well.
Download any X app which does not use autoconfig, recompile, watch it fail when the hard-coded path to /usr/X11R6 in the makefile doesn't exist. (or the RPM spec file, or the slackbuild script...)
/usr/X11R6/include paths in them), but it's still a pain.
Sure, the binaries aren't broken (though I managed to find a few source files with includes with hard coded
Except the whole thing is a quote. Zonk didn't write it, he just quoted it.
Besides, it looks like the Ask Slashdot formula to me:
http://ask.slashdot.org/
Yonah ("Core") is not 64-bit. Merom (Core 2) is 64-bit, but there are no Macs out with Merom yet. The Mac Pro is the first Intel mac with a 64-bit CPU. (Unless you count the Developer Preview boxes which had P4's with EM64T.)
> I see this as bad coding, plain and simple. Why not just make it impossible to add vehicles to the garage when the license expires? ...because a bunch of people who can't use their cars at all are going to put a lot more pressure on the lot owner to resolve the situation quickly than those who just need to find a new place to park.
I don't think it's bad coding at all. Evil maybe, since it's certainly not the car owner's fault, but not bad coding.
apt-get is not a package manager. I think you mean Debian's dpkg is the one we should go with.
Of course, apt-get works just fine in Redhat/Fedora too...except on x86_64, since it doesn't support multiple architectures on the same system. There, you'll have to use yum instead. What does one do on Debian/Ubuntu when they want to install i386 packages on an x86_64 system?
Agreed. I actually thought the third book was the best of the series. The second wasn't all that interesting, but is pretty much required reading for the events leading up to the third. (You could almost view it as one long book, split in half.) However, after that, it was all downhill...WAY downhill.
You are right that it works for Google. However, you are wrong about Google Earth.
Last year in Illinois they just doubled the price of cash tolls, and kept Ipass tolls the same price. You pay a $10 deposit for the transponder, but over time you will save money in the long run over cash. Chances are that it will save the government money in the long run as well, since they need to pay less toll booth operators, and less lanes are required when you can just keep driving 80^H^H55 through the toll plaza without slowing/stopping.
Of course, they do require you to give them your license plate # to activate the trasnponder, so tracking you is already easy. The terms of service when I got mine were pretty privacy-friendly. Of course, that's the way to get people to get hooked on it now, so they can change them later...
Somehow I doubt that defense would hold up in court, if it were the RIAA suing you for filesharing. "But I didn't give them written permission to download those MP3s from me!"