Cool thanks. I was aware of the power statistics app in Gnome, but It didn't connect in my mind that I could see the wattage. I'm bouncing bet/ 26 and 18 Watts. kinda on the high side. Now I have a baseline. thx again.
To add to the GP's account: Zelda: Wind Waker for the Gamecube has Link plunging his sword into his (Gannon's) forehead. I don't recall seeing blood, but it's very visual and not kids stuff that's for sure...
I live in the NE US, (NY to be exact,) during the Early eighties, the Cartoon to watch was He-Man! Macross aka, Robotech was airing here but not very well known or popular. I liked it, and a few of my friends were into it. Mid-late 80's Transformers and GI-Joe were huge here (they usually aired back to back on TV) Voltron (five lions) appeared around '87 Thereorabouts, and while it was big, it wasn't as big as the Transformers. Later the 15 vehicle Voltron appeared which didn't go over well with people here. Myself and one other friend like it. Everyone else I knew hated it.
I never saw the cartoon for Voltron III i.e. the Gladiator Voltron (It never aired here as far as I know,) but I remember seeing the Toy in a Shop a few times.
I would have told them "Thank you for informing me that you do not want my business. I will now be spending $x with your competitor, who is willing to not treat me badly for something someone I don't even know has done." *click*
And you would've been laughed at. Every region (or city) has a Cable monopoly. When I lived in NYC it was Time Warner. I moved across the Hudson to NJ, and guess what? It Time Warner there too. Unless you're fortunate enough to live somewhere that has choices (extremely rare)
If you live in Condo, then you cannot get a dish unless they have an agreement w/ the Condo Association. Defy the Association, and they will come down on you, hard. And make you rip it out especially if they or your neighbors deem it an eyesore.
So are you suggesting that regular users get write access to Firefox' directory? That's a no-no. Do you give all users on your Linux/UN*X boxen write access to/bin,/sbin,/lib,/usr/lib...? Are you saying that users on Linux get to update the one and only copy of Firefox on the system, sans sudo?
I just want to clarify something. On my linux system (which is debian btw,) The Firefox (and Thunderbird) binaries are installed via Apt updates. Any themes and extentions you install are in your own profile, they _ARE_NOT_ System wide. unless you run firefox as root and install the Extention/theme as root. Only then the change is system-wide. I imagine that Debian is not the only Distro that does it this way.
Can a stock Minivan do 0-60 in 5.4 seconds? Conversly, can a Sports car get more than 20 mpg on a highway? They are definietly not the same.
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Vonage should quit spending on marketing and concentrate on customer service. They are widely regarded as having the worst customer service of any company ever! I wish I had found out about this prior to signing up. I didn't think anyone could top Verizon Online. Vonage has them beat.
If they had just built bluetooth into the damn iPod, this wouldn't be an issue. One headset, two devices, one device, eight, who cares... switch back and forth, transfer files without a bunch of cables..
I guess I'm not alone in thinking that a bluetooth enabled ipod (or other music player) would rock. Not only could you sync it w/ no wires. you can have 1 set of headphones for music and phone. plus it could integrate in to a car's audio system.
The real question is: Why hasn't anybody done this yet?
Even if HD-DVD and Blueray are not as fragile as DVDs (yeah, right), the thought of losing 28GB of data this time round is, well, why take the risk.
I cant imagine anyone will use this crap for data storage so the capacity is a moot point. I built a nice 4tb array on raid5 that cost me around $800 (20 cents per GB which is CHEAPER than blueray/hd-dvd), or yes, a couple of 400GB drives on raid1 and your data is quite safe and you dont need >10 disks for same capacity
Capacity isn't everything. Try transporting that 4tb Disk array. CD's are fragile yes, but cd's are much easier to transport than few hardrives. 28GB is good. Most people I know don't need to have 4tb on them at all times. You must be a special case....
What's wrong with a commercial one that does the job as expected?
IMO, there's nothing is wrong with a closed commercial driver as long as the people writing the drivers didn't make it so you need to jump through hoops to get it installed. And then not fix bugs and not implement some basic features in the drivers.
The reason there is not a strong gaming community for *nix is because there aren't enough games. There aren't enough games because there isn't a strong gaming community. Catch 22.
I would say that there is a market but it's largly untapped because the hardware support is lacking. It pisses me off that I have Doom 3 and a good card to play it with, but I can't enjoy the game on my platform of choice because the drivers either don't exist (in the case of the X800, 850, 1600 series) or they don't work as well as the Windows versions (see my comment above about features not being implemented.)
Why hasn't the open source community developed a strong gaming environment for *nix yet?!
Long Story short: Nivdia and ATI's are the roadblocks in this area. They're linux drivers are half-assed and they will not release information for their their graphics cards so that a an open source driver can be written.
By packaging the Xorg packages in Unstable. Someone can (probalby will) take the Src packages (I say someone because I myself, don't know technical details of this procedure,) and "backport" them and make them available to Sarge. This has been done in the past numerous times over with other packages, Including Xfree86 4.x, Gnome, KDE, etc.
Viola, Now you have a Modern X Server on Sarge. It doesn't have to ship on the CD/DVD, just add a repository to/etc/apt/sources.list and apt-get update && apt-get install Xorg (or whatever the packager decides to name it)
Congratulations to the entire Debian Project! Sarge is a Modern Distro Desktop Distro. I wonder what the people who complain that Debian is outdated will say now?
Any one know if or when Debian will transition away from xfree86? I know that 4.3.0 version is in Sarge (and Sid) and getting bug fixes. But what is the long term plan for X on Debian?
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And I don't post as much anymore. Still, I do lurk, however.
Cool thanks. I was aware of the power statistics app in Gnome, but It didn't connect in my mind that I could see the wattage. I'm bouncing bet/ 26 and 18 Watts. kinda on the high side. Now I have a baseline. thx again.
Just curious, how did you get these numbers? I'm curious to know what my own machine's usage is.
OT. Is there a link to a list? Or can you provide a link to Theo's Disscussion/opinion on this matter. I'm curious....
To add to the GP's account: Zelda: Wind Waker for the Gamecube has Link plunging his sword into his (Gannon's) forehead. I don't recall seeing blood, but it's very visual and not kids stuff that's for sure...
I live in the NE US, (NY to be exact,) during the Early eighties, the Cartoon to watch was He-Man! Macross aka, Robotech was airing here but not very well known or popular. I liked it, and a few of my friends were into it. Mid-late 80's Transformers and GI-Joe were huge here (they usually aired back to back on TV) Voltron (five lions) appeared around '87 Thereorabouts, and while it was big, it wasn't as big as the Transformers. Later the 15 vehicle Voltron appeared which didn't go over well with people here. Myself and one other friend like it. Everyone else I knew hated it.
I never saw the cartoon for Voltron III i.e. the Gladiator Voltron (It never aired here as far as I know,) but I remember seeing the Toy in a Shop a few times.
Part of the cut over is you're supposed turn off the old ones at some point. Let me guess, politics? I feel your pain...
And you would've been laughed at. Every region (or city) has a Cable monopoly. When I lived in NYC it was Time Warner. I moved across the Hudson to NJ, and guess what? It Time Warner there too. Unless you're fortunate enough to live somewhere that has choices (extremely rare)
If you live in Condo, then you cannot get a dish unless they have an agreement w/ the Condo Association. Defy the Association, and they will come down on you, hard. And make you rip it out especially if they or your neighbors deem it an eyesore.
Because SCSI is confusing: SATA tape drives.
They cost almost a grand, but there you have it.
So are you suggesting that regular users get write access to Firefox' directory? That's a no-no. Do you give all users on your Linux/UN*X boxen write access to /bin, /sbin, /lib, /usr/lib...? Are you saying that users on Linux get to update the one and only copy of Firefox on the system, sans sudo?
I just want to clarify something. On my linux system (which is debian btw,) The Firefox (and Thunderbird) binaries are installed via Apt updates. Any themes and extentions you install are in your own profile, they _ARE_NOT_ System wide. unless you run firefox as root and install the Extention/theme as root. Only then the change is system-wide. I imagine that Debian is not the only Distro that does it this way.
I should've added "and fit 7 passengers."
Can a stock Minivan do 0-60 in 5.4 seconds? Conversly, can a Sports car get more than 20 mpg on a highway? They are definietly not the same.
Vonage should quit spending on marketing and concentrate on customer service. They are widely regarded as having the worst customer service of any company ever! I wish I had found out about this prior to signing up. I didn't think anyone could top Verizon Online. Vonage has them beat.
And the best chocolate too.
I guess I'm not alone in thinking that a bluetooth enabled ipod (or other music player) would rock. Not only could you sync it w/ no wires. you can have 1 set of headphones for music and phone. plus it could integrate in to a car's audio system.
The real question is: Why hasn't anybody done this yet?
Capacity isn't everything. Try transporting that 4tb Disk array. CD's are fragile yes, but cd's are much easier to transport than few hardrives. 28GB is good. Most people I know don't need to have 4tb on them at all times. You must be a special case....
IMO, there's nothing is wrong with a closed commercial driver as long as the people writing the drivers didn't make it so you need to jump through hoops to get it installed. And then not fix bugs and not implement some basic features in the drivers.
I would say that there is a market but it's largly untapped because the hardware support is lacking. It pisses me off that I have Doom 3 and a good card to play it with, but I can't enjoy the game on my platform of choice because the drivers either don't exist (in the case of the X800, 850, 1600 series) or they don't work as well as the Windows versions (see my comment above about features not being implemented.)
Long Story short: Nivdia and ATI's are the roadblocks in this area. They're linux drivers are half-assed and they will not release information for their their graphics cards so that a an open source driver can be written.
The Abit NF-7S v2.0 is NForce2 based and has the soundstorm Chipset (with the Digital out too.)
I own one.
2. Very simple, unobtrusive interface
Simpler than Thunderbird or Outlook?
Um, to add to this You can use Tbird or Outlook (or any other pop mail client to read your gmail)
Instructions for doing this are here
By packaging the Xorg packages in Unstable. Someone can (probalby will) take the Src packages (I say someone because I myself, don't know technical details of this procedure,) and "backport" them and make them available to Sarge. This has been done in the past numerous times over with other packages, Including Xfree86 4.x, Gnome, KDE, etc.
/etc/apt/sources.list and apt-get update && apt-get install Xorg (or whatever the packager decides to name it)
Viola, Now you have a Modern X Server on Sarge. It doesn't have to ship on the CD/DVD, just add a repository to
They might complain about xfree 4.3
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Um, nope. See this:
http://necrotic.deadbeast.net/svn/xfree86/trunk/d
I believe The default is 2.4. but you can have 2.6 at install time if you type linux26 @ the boot prompt. 2.6.8 ships with Sarge.
Congratulations to the entire Debian Project! Sarge is a Modern Distro Desktop Distro. I wonder what the people who complain that Debian is outdated will say now?
Here's looking forward to Debian 4.0!
Any one know if or when Debian will transition away from xfree86? I know that 4.3.0 version is in Sarge (and Sid) and getting bug fixes. But what is the long term plan for X on Debian?