/me doublechecks to make sure he's not an idiot...;)
the only browser returned for 'navigator' is:
mozilla-browser - Mozilla Web browser - core and browser
Just in case you are wondering, I do have non-free in my sources.list. It just isn't in the unstable repository anymore. I suppose I can add the stable repository to my sources.list and install it from there. It was just a pain not to find it when I needed it. I guess I should pay more attention to what apt is removing when I upgrade...
Actually, I run Debian unstable on my laptop and Netscape 4.7 disappeared on me recently. I needed it for a Java app for work that only works properly in NS4, and was rather annoyed when I went to use it to find it had apparently disappeared without me noticing it in a recent apt-get upgrade.
The only thing that comes up in an apt-cache search for netscape 4.7 is the java plugin for it, not Netscape itself...so I assume they removed it from the unstable non-free repository.
Hybrids have cleaner emissions compared to standard vechicles, regardless of mileage.
This is how they qualify as a LEV and SULEV (low-emission vehicle/super-low-emission-vehicle).
The hybrid setup does improve emissions, but it is not the only thing that allows them to be qualified as LEV's. All cars built by Honda since the year 2000 (even the S2000 and NSX) are LEV or better. Many of them, even some standard gasoline powered Civics and Accords are rated as SULEV vehicles.
Kind of funny to see this article on slashdot today, since I was just reading some messages on the Insight forum last night after someone was talking about hybrids in IRC. Many of the people there get _better_ than the claimed EPA mileage of 61/68 (which is much higher than the EPA mileage ratings for both the Prius and Civic Hybrid). Even the self-proclaimed leadfoot drivers who pass everyone doing 90 MPH on the highway are still getting over 50 MPG.:)
Sure, you can put it up against anything Apple can put on a laptop as long as it's sitting on a desk and plugged in. But how much does it weigh, and how much runtime do you get when you are actually using the machine on battery?
The TiVo comes with an IR blaster. It also has a serial port for some sat receivers with serial control. I believe this is preferred if you have it as it allows for instant channel changes. The IR blaster manually types the number it wants to go to each time, which (at least with my slow dish receiver IR, it got confused if I set it to less delay between numbers) is about a 2 second process for a 4-digit channel number. It does this even if you use the up/down buttons on the TiVo control. And oddly (and this may be specific to my hardware), the IR blaster seems to interfere with the standard dish remote making it work slowly as well. So, channel surfing sucks. But after you get used to a TiVo, you won't channel surf much anymore anyway.
On quality - I go from Dish Network receiver to TiVo via Svideo output, then from TiVo to TV via composite. I can't see a decrease in quality between just going straight from the DN box to the TV via composite, so I don't think you lose much by not recording the original stream directly off the satellite.
I read slashdot before there evern were registered accounts. That was quite some time ago.;) I forget exactly how it worked, I think you could just enter in any name when posting?
I do remember that when they implemented registered accounts, I was too lazy to register, and waited 2 or 3 weeks before I finally broke down and registered. I was surprised by how high the number was at the time. Funny that it seems so low now comapred to most.;)
Exactly. I'm glad Apple has realized that. Now if they'll just apply this knowledge elsewhere and build a subnotebook, I'd be happy.
I've had plenty of people tell me that the 12" Powerbook is small enough, but once you get used to carrying around something that is only 60% the size and half the weight (Sony Picturebook), you don't want to go back. Sony no longer sells the Picturebook on our shores, but you can now buy a Fujitsu P-series that is about the same size and weight for about the same price as the considerably larger and heavier 12" iBook.
I'd love to carry an OSX machine around, but it doesn't look like it's going to happen anytime soon. Maybe if the mini-iPod is a success, they will continue the shrinking trend... I can hope anyway.;)
I missed that too...probably because it wasn't in the linked article. They did mention that the switch from.13 to.09 would help heat production, but no specifics or even percentages relative to the current G4 or G5.
If you have a link to another story with more info, I'd like to see it as I'm curious how much cooler it does run.
Weird. Maybe you have some other issue...slow disks or no DMA on your source disk maybe? I'm using about 1/4 of the CPU power you are and my only limitation is the speed of my burner (16X).
My fileserver at home is a dual Pentium Pro 166 with an ATAPI DVD-RW, still running 2.4. I get real 16x burn times while burning from a pipe (mkisofs) with burnfree enabled. mkisofs does cause a good bit of load, but cdrecord does not, and both together do not cause enough load to peg even one CPU.
After reading your post, I wondered if I was hitting some kind of limit in running cdrecord+mkisofs that was causing me to avoid the problem. So I seperately ran mkisofs to generate an ISO image, and then cdrecord to burn the image file. I had about 50% CPU usage on the image generation step (source and ISO on the same drive, so probably slightly more than my usual burn method), and only 10% CPU on the burning stage.
I've been running Linux software RAID1 on a few SMP boxes 24/7 for the last 3-4 years with no problems other than drive failures. My oldest one even still runs a 2.2 kernel with the old raid-0.5 subsystem that does not do automount, background consistancy checks, etc.
Assuming your software is up to date, if you are only having the problem on one machine repeatedly, I'd look for a hardware problem...maybe a flaky controller or bad cable? (This is why you should not put two drives from the same array on the same cable.)
"Now, this seems like a great idea to keep the kids nice and quite, but how does a kid see the world while on a road trip? If I am going to haul the kids and wife off to a National or State Park, they are to be looking out the windows and not watching DVD movie or some Cartoon."
I'm not sure that's really a new thing. When my parents dragged me off to some national park every year when I was a kid, I read books and comics in the back of the van for the entire trip. I just wasn't very interested.
Now, 15-20 years later, I'm out taking my own trips to places like that and enjoying it. Of course, I'm also not stuck in the back of a van anymore, I'm driving a sports car. Getting there is half the fun.;)
"In the first 150 days after the release of Windows 2000, there were 17 critical vulnerabilities. For Windows Server 2003 there were four. For Red Hat (Linux) 6, they were five to ten times higher"
Two can play that game...
During the last 150 days, there were 24 critical updates for Windows 2000. For Red Hat (Linux) 6, there were none.
I see lots of comments saying if you're going to use a display in each room, why not put relatively a low powered PC in each room, and mount the mp3's from a central fileserver and play them on each machine.
I agree with the first part, but if you want mulit-room playback of the same music, it'd be a lot easier to just run an icecast (or whatever mp3 streamer you prefer) on the server, and stream to each of the "display" PC's. Probably simpler software-wise than a single PC with 6 soundcards, too.
What's the Porsche connection, you're wondering? The notebook was designed by Porsche Design GmbH, the Austrian firm founded by F.A. Porsche, grandson of the famous engineer.
This is not the same company that designed the Porsche 911.
I've been keeping an eye on this one for when the time comes that I need to replace my Sony Picturebook C1VN. I'm happy with it, but I like the built-in 802.11 on the Fujitsu, and it's way cheaper too.
I have a quad battery on the Picturebook, and get about 6 hours actual use out of it. Twice that if it sits there doing nothing, which is what Sony's battery life specs seem to be based on. I'm curious if Fujitsu is the same way. They seem to go up to about 13 hours max in the specs...
... about ways to mod your car for higher efficiency than more power. *G* I mean there's a thriving aftermarket in higher power output accessories... why isn't there one for more efficient accessories?
If you read up on basic hotrodding techniques, you will find that many of them are geared towards gaining power by increasing efficiency.
For example, by reducing frictional losses, you "lose" less power in the engine (and waste less fuel, to look at it another way). By streamlining the airflow (which is often pretty messy, because it would cost more to manufacturing nicely smoothed passages), you increase efficiency. Done properly, this can result in both increased fuel efficiency and small gains in power.
Actually, the Mustang has been SOHC V8. Only the Cobras have a DOHC V8, which makes a good bit more power.
5.0L V8, pushrod, "215" hp (see below) 4.6L V8, SOHC, 225hp. 4.6L V8, DOHC, 300hp (approx)
Also interesting to note, at the time Ford switched to the 4.6L, they changed the way they rated hp on their engines. Using the same test methods, the 5.0 only makes 205hp.
While I'm talking about the "5.0", a personal mini-rant. The engine is 302ci. Let's do some math...
302(ci) *.016381 = 4.947062(L).~= 4.9L
4.9L != 5.0L, unless you work for Ford, or designed Pentiums for Intel.;)
The LS1 (and LS6) are a similar story, but have even less in common with the previous generations and yes, they are all aluminum to my knowledge.
Actually, the LS1 is a complete redesign. The only commonality is that they kept the same cylinder bore spacing. Chances are good there are NO parts that will interchange between an LS1 and LT1.
Actually, Terminator 2 was the only good sequel I can think of, ever.
I always considered it more of a remake than a sequel. Watch the two back to back and you'll see that almost every major scene in T1 is redone in T2, some in almost identical ways.
Everyone who bought a product with a chipset by Nvidia paid, ass. Don't you realize drivers are a tool to help sell their main product, hardware?
Yes. And they'd be an even bigger selling point for some people if they were open source.
Drivers are generally assumed to be part of the cost of a hardware product. Whether or not they are open source or not wouldn't have much of an effect on the cost to develop them.
My problem is that the Linux comunity bashes nVidia for providing a couple object files with glue code.
If all software were under the GPL, there would be alot of slashdotters who couldnt afford to eat because they would have no job.
So how much did you pay NVidia for those binary drivers, so their programmers could afford to eat?:P
I like the GPL, but I agree that not all software needs to be GPL'd. It's up to the author to decide what license they choose for their software.
However, I can think of approximately 0 good reasons for a driver to be closed source. Except maybe to prevent other people from laughing at how bad their code is (which I don't think would be a problem with the reputation that NVidia's drivers have, though maybe for ATI...) I think the common excuse of it being an aid to competitors trying to reverse engineer their product is just wishful thinking.
I've had plenty of experience with closed source drivers, and they always end up causing trouble of some sort or another. Admittedly, NVidia's drivers aren't as bad as some, since they put the binary object inside an open source wrapper so you can at least upgrade your kernel...but people having problems with them does not seem to be an uncommon occurance.
> 1. Until ALL games run under Linux without much difficulty, I simply don't have any choice here.
True, unless you're into first person shooters (which are one area where the PC definately beats consoles, as others have mentioned). That's the only game category I know of with a wide selection of popular games available under Linux.
> Nearly all the Xbox and PS/2 games in the world don't hold up to a single quality PC game.
The same can be said in reverse, as well. Nearly all the PC games in the world don't hold up to a single quality PS2 game.;)
> 2. I work at a Microsoft only shop. It's sad, it's infuriating, and I have little choice.
> To VPN into work,
http://pptpclient.sourceforge.net/ (I believe there are others as well)
> connect to source safe, upload code to the servers,
I know nothing about sourcesafe, can't help you here.
> run terminal services,
http://www.rdesktop.org/
> connect to SQL Server 2000 (Microsoft's only GOOD non-gaming product)
> but it still won't help me figure out who sold my name.
Yes it does. Even if there is a false or no to address, look at the mail headers, and your mail server should tell you what account it accepted the mail for. The last part of the first Received: line in the message is what you are looking for. Like below, if you bought something using the addres spamtrap1@mydomain.com, you might find...
Received: from somemailserver.com (somemailserver.com [1.2.3.4])
by mymailserver.com(8.11.4/8.11.4) with ESMTP id g01Iuqw01634
for <spamtrap1@mydomain.com>; Thu, 14 Nov 2002 13:58:57 -0500
(Funny, slashdot still makes you use < for < when using plain text.)
Slashdot Mirror
/me doublechecks to make sure he's not an idiot... ;)
the only browser returned for 'navigator' is:
mozilla-browser - Mozilla Web browser - core and browser
Just in case you are wondering, I do have non-free in my sources.list. It just isn't in the unstable repository anymore. I suppose I can add the stable repository to my sources.list and install it from there. It was just a pain not to find it when I needed it. I guess I should pay more attention to what apt is removing when I upgrade...
Actually, I run Debian unstable on my laptop and Netscape 4.7 disappeared on me recently. I needed it for a Java app for work that only works properly in NS4, and was rather annoyed when I went to use it to find it had apparently disappeared without me noticing it in a recent apt-get upgrade.
The only thing that comes up in an apt-cache search for netscape 4.7 is the java plugin for it, not Netscape itself...so I assume they removed it from the unstable non-free repository.
All Amigas had the built-in caps lock LED, even the A500 and later all-in-one keyboard style machines.
;)
Also, the LED would blink failure codes in the case of keyboard errors. So in a way, it already had a flashing caps lock LED.
The hybrid setup does improve emissions, but it is not the only thing that allows them to be qualified as LEV's. All cars built by Honda since the year 2000 (even the S2000 and NSX) are LEV or better. Many of them, even some standard gasoline powered Civics and Accords are rated as SULEV vehicles.
Kind of funny to see this article on slashdot today, since I was just reading some messages on the Insight forum last night after someone was talking about hybrids in IRC. Many of the people there get _better_ than the claimed EPA mileage of 61/68 (which is much higher than the EPA mileage ratings for both the Prius and Civic Hybrid). Even the self-proclaimed leadfoot drivers who pass everyone doing 90 MPH on the highway are still getting over 50 MPG. :)
Sure, you can put it up against anything Apple can put on a laptop as long as it's sitting on a desk and plugged in. But how much does it weigh, and how much runtime do you get when you are actually using the machine on battery?
The TiVo comes with an IR blaster. It also has a serial port for some sat receivers with serial control. I believe this is preferred if you have it as it allows for instant channel changes. The IR blaster manually types the number it wants to go to each time, which (at least with my slow dish receiver IR, it got confused if I set it to less delay between numbers) is about a 2 second process for a 4-digit channel number. It does this even if you use the up/down buttons on the TiVo control. And oddly (and this may be specific to my hardware), the IR blaster seems to interfere with the standard dish remote making it work slowly as well. So, channel surfing sucks. But after you get used to a TiVo, you won't channel surf much anymore anyway.
On quality - I go from Dish Network receiver to TiVo via Svideo output, then from TiVo to TV via composite. I can't see a decrease in quality between just going straight from the DN box to the TV via composite, so I don't think you lose much by not recording the original stream directly off the satellite.
I read slashdot before there evern were registered accounts. That was quite some time ago. ;) I forget exactly how it worked, I think you could just enter in any name when posting?
;)
I do remember that when they implemented registered accounts, I was too lazy to register, and waited 2 or 3 weeks before I finally broke down and registered. I was surprised by how high the number was at the time. Funny that it seems so low now comapred to most.
Exactly. I'm glad Apple has realized that. Now if they'll just apply this knowledge elsewhere and build a subnotebook, I'd be happy.
;)
I've had plenty of people tell me that the 12" Powerbook is small enough, but once you get used to carrying around something that is only 60% the size and half the weight (Sony Picturebook), you don't want to go back. Sony no longer sells the Picturebook on our shores, but you can now buy a Fujitsu P-series that is about the same size and weight for about the same price as the considerably larger and heavier 12" iBook.
I'd love to carry an OSX machine around, but it doesn't look like it's going to happen anytime soon. Maybe if the mini-iPod is a success, they will continue the shrinking trend... I can hope anyway.
I missed that too...probably because it wasn't in the linked article. They did mention that the switch from .13 to .09 would help heat production, but no specifics or even percentages relative to the current G4 or G5.
If you have a link to another story with more info, I'd like to see it as I'm curious how much cooler it does run.
Weird. Maybe you have some other issue...slow disks or no DMA on your source disk maybe? I'm using about 1/4 of the CPU power you are and my only limitation is the speed of my burner (16X).
My fileserver at home is a dual Pentium Pro 166 with an ATAPI DVD-RW, still running 2.4. I get real 16x burn times while burning from a pipe (mkisofs) with burnfree enabled. mkisofs does cause a good bit of load, but cdrecord does not, and both together do not cause enough load to peg even one CPU.
After reading your post, I wondered if I was hitting some kind of limit in running cdrecord+mkisofs that was causing me to avoid the problem. So I seperately ran mkisofs to generate an ISO image, and then cdrecord to burn the image file. I had about 50% CPU usage on the image generation step (source and ISO on the same drive, so probably slightly more than my usual burn method), and only 10% CPU on the burning stage.
I've been running Linux software RAID1 on a few SMP boxes 24/7 for the last 3-4 years with no problems other than drive failures. My oldest one even still runs a 2.2 kernel with the old raid-0.5 subsystem that does not do automount, background consistancy checks, etc.
Assuming your software is up to date, if you are only having the problem on one machine repeatedly, I'd look for a hardware problem...maybe a flaky controller or bad cable? (This is why you should not put two drives from the same array on the same cable.)
I'm not sure that's really a new thing. When my parents dragged me off to some national park every year when I was a kid, I read books and comics in the back of the van for the entire trip. I just wasn't very interested.
Now, 15-20 years later, I'm out taking my own trips to places like that and enjoying it. Of course, I'm also not stuck in the back of a van anymore, I'm driving a sports car. Getting there is half the fun. ;)
Sketch
"In the first 150 days after the release of Windows 2000, there were 17 critical vulnerabilities. For Windows Server 2003 there were four. For Red Hat (Linux) 6, they were five to ten times higher"
;)
Two can play that game...
During the last 150 days, there were 24 critical updates for Windows 2000. For Red Hat (Linux) 6, there were none.
Therefore, Linux MUST be more secure.
I see lots of comments saying if you're going to use a display in each room, why not put relatively a low powered PC in each room, and mount the mp3's from a central fileserver and play them on each machine.
I agree with the first part, but if you want mulit-room playback of the same music, it'd be a lot easier to just run an icecast (or whatever mp3 streamer you prefer) on the server, and stream to each of the "display" PC's. Probably simpler software-wise than a single PC with 6 soundcards, too.
From CNET:
This is not the same company that designed the Porsche 911.
What battery configuration are you using?
I've been keeping an eye on this one for when the time comes that I need to replace my Sony Picturebook C1VN. I'm happy with it, but I like the built-in 802.11 on the Fujitsu, and it's way cheaper too.
I have a quad battery on the Picturebook, and get about 6 hours actual use out of it. Twice that if it sits there doing nothing, which is what Sony's battery life specs seem to be based on. I'm curious if Fujitsu is the same way. They seem to go up to about 13 hours max in the specs...
If you read up on basic hotrodding techniques, you will find that many of them are geared towards gaining power by increasing efficiency.
For example, by reducing frictional losses, you "lose" less power in the engine (and waste less fuel, to look at it another way). By streamlining the airflow (which is often pretty messy, because it would cost more to manufacturing nicely smoothed passages), you increase efficiency. Done properly, this can result in both increased fuel efficiency and small gains in power.
Actually, the Mustang has been SOHC V8. Only the Cobras have a DOHC V8, which makes a good bit more power.
.016381 = 4.947062(L).~= 4.9L
;)
5.0L V8, pushrod, "215" hp (see below)
4.6L V8, SOHC, 225hp.
4.6L V8, DOHC, 300hp (approx)
Also interesting to note, at the time Ford switched to the 4.6L, they changed the way they rated hp on their engines. Using the same test methods, the 5.0 only makes 205hp.
While I'm talking about the "5.0", a personal mini-rant. The engine is 302ci. Let's do some math...
302(ci) *
4.9L != 5.0L, unless you work for Ford, or designed Pentiums for Intel.
Actually, the LS1 is a complete redesign. The only commonality is that they kept the same cylinder bore spacing. Chances are good there are NO parts that will interchange between an LS1 and LT1.
RH7.2 "Professional" actually comes with it's own BBC rescue disc.
I always considered it more of a remake than a sequel. Watch the two back to back and you'll see that almost every major scene in T1 is redone in T2, some in almost identical ways.
Yes. And they'd be an even bigger selling point for some people if they were open source.
Drivers are generally assumed to be part of the cost of a hardware product. Whether or not they are open source or not wouldn't have much of an effect on the cost to develop them.
So how much did you pay NVidia for those binary drivers, so their programmers could afford to eat? :P
I like the GPL, but I agree that not all software needs to be GPL'd. It's up to the author to decide what license they choose for their software.
However, I can think of approximately 0 good reasons for a driver to be closed source. Except maybe to prevent other people from laughing at how bad their code is (which I don't think would be a problem with the reputation that NVidia's drivers have, though maybe for ATI...) I think the common excuse of it being an aid to competitors trying to reverse engineer their product is just wishful thinking.
I've had plenty of experience with closed source drivers, and they always end up causing trouble of some sort or another. Admittedly, NVidia's drivers aren't as bad as some, since they put the binary object inside an open source wrapper so you can at least upgrade your kernel...but people having problems with them does not seem to be an uncommon occurance.
> 1. Until ALL games run under Linux without much difficulty, I simply don't have any choice here.
;)
;)
True, unless you're into first person shooters (which are one area where the PC definately beats consoles, as others have mentioned). That's the only game category I know of with a wide selection of popular games available under Linux.
> Nearly all the Xbox and PS/2 games in the world don't hold up to a single quality PC game.
The same can be said in reverse, as well. Nearly all the PC games in the world don't hold up to a single quality PS2 game.
> 2. I work at a Microsoft only shop. It's sad, it's infuriating, and I have little choice.
> To VPN into work,
http://pptpclient.sourceforge.net/ (I believe there are others as well)
> connect to source safe, upload code to the servers,
I know nothing about sourcesafe, can't help you here.
> run terminal services,
http://www.rdesktop.org/
> connect to SQL Server 2000 (Microsoft's only GOOD non-gaming product)
http://www.freetds.org/
> I have to use windows.
But maybe not quite as much as you think...
> but it still won't help me figure out who sold my name.
Yes it does. Even if there is a false or no to address, look at the mail headers, and your mail server should tell you what account it accepted the mail for. The last part of the first Received: line in the message is what you are looking for. Like below, if you bought something using the addres spamtrap1@mydomain.com, you might find...
Received: from somemailserver.com (somemailserver.com [1.2.3.4])
by mymailserver.com(8.11.4/8.11.4) with ESMTP id g01Iuqw01634
for <spamtrap1@mydomain.com>; Thu, 14 Nov 2002 13:58:57 -0500
(Funny, slashdot still makes you use < for < when using plain text.)