It is my opinion that the preferred format for GPL hackers is the obfuscated binary format. They love to reverse engineer things so that "their OS can have the same features as any other", but the real intent is to pirate all the music and films they want.
I don't know if there is anything particularly special about Sunon fans over other brands, but I do know that Panasonic's Panaflo line of fans, particularly the 80L1A, manage to consume less power and pump more air than any other fans, decibel for decibel. It has something to do with their *cough* patented bearing technology.
Some specialty cooling shops carry most/all of their lightweight plastic line, and you can probably find a bunch of the heavy duty aluminum ones at surplus stores like Ax-Man in the Twin Cities area. Ooh, I love that place.
Would you dispute that Cobalt Networks and TiVo are the two biggest Linux success stories? These two companies have just one thing in common -- they leveraged the abilities of Linux systems with technologies that make them available to the masses. You already know how it was done -- they wrote graphical interfaces as abstractors to the chaos beneath.
Have fun using lynx and vi, if you even think that those are legitmate uses of Linux.
... or use an older machine and buy a hard drive with 40GB of storage for about the same price as an entry level Sony VCR ($125). Next year, you'll be able to buy even more disk space for the same amount of money. After converting to MPEG-4, it also means that you could squeeze 3 or 4 of your favorite Simpsons episodes (I'm thinking of Clown College -- you can't eat that!) onto a single CD.
No, work should be done on both. X sucks just as much for its nasty looking fonts as it does for nasty looking apps. There's nothing like the jagged look of Windows 3.1 to make you want to run for shelter.
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A friend of mine had some problems with Telocity. After four days no service, and no contact from them, he finally managed to get ahold of the tech support department, who told them that he had a billing problem. The billing department got back to him a couple days later, and they told him that he owed $108. He paid, and got reconnected, but only after a week of downtime struggling through their "customer service".
He *tried* to make alternate arrangements, but none of the Northpoint ISP's he talked to seemed to understand that he ALREADY HAD THE DSL, and all they needed to do was flip a switch, as it were. They told him they could get things rolling in 6-8 weeks.
I still don't think that the ILECs are being fair to CLECs, since I had no difficulty obtaining DSL from my local monopoly, which I chose on the basis that the best ISP I could find only used Northpoint for IDSL (ack!). Unlike my friends using Covad and Northpoint (especially because we have other friends working for Northpoint), I have noticed only two failures for a total of three hours over the past year and a half. Fishy, isn't it?
15 kiloBITS or 15 kiloBYTES? DSL is rated in kilobits. If @home is throttling you to 15 kilobits per second upstream, you're better off with a modem, which would be twice as fast at 33.6 kilobits/sec. One way cable systems were never that bad.
I have a 272 up/640 dn DSL connection from US^H^H Qwest. In terms of actual kiloBYTE performance, divide those numbers by a number slightly less than 10.
I already replied to one of the children of this thread, but I should step back a bit and defend the idea at least a little bit.
With applications, people are forced into using the notion of tasks. If I started typing, using no application in particular, it might not be a bad idea to have some kind of buffer that intelligently determines what application that text is destined for.
If it saw the string: "#include", I wouldn't mind if the OS pasted that into my favorite text editor or C development environment. Similarly, if it saw the string: "to: someone@somewhere", I wouldn't object to having the OS fire up an email application.
If you went deeper into that thought and tried to make it more powerful, you would end up with something very similar to the W3C browser guidelines that/. posted earlier today. I think it would be kind of nice to be abe to type something like "math:(expression)" and get a calculator app to show the result.
It's very similar to a command line, if you think about it. Netscape had phony protocols like wysiwyg, mocha, and so forth, but the feature set was fixed. Windows has facilities for a nearly infinite number of these "protocols" and tying them context handling libraries, although in practice, very few are implemented (res, ftp, http, gopher?). I know of only one application that uses their own (reg), which is the MicroPlanet RegStudio. From the command line, you would need to enter "start reg:(key name)", but within IE, a link to "reg:HKLM" would actually fire up RegStudio and open the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE key.
Anyway, I had that thought in my head. If Raskin used a better term than "word processor", I'd think of him as half the idiot I do presently think he is. Maybe he dumbs it down, maybe he's just that clueless. All I know is that self proclaimed UI gurus in general (*cough* Nielsen) piss me off, and Raskin is the most annoying of the bunch.
I don't think that Lovers Arrival, The has this right at all -- YHBT.
The comparison *is* invalid. Remember that FPS measurements are averages, not sustained performance. 60fps isn't that great if the card slows down to 20 or less in a critical moment of the game when things get heavy. There is much to be said for people who claim to see the diff. at higher framerates.
Is that scarier than the fact that they probably didn't need a warrant? In most dorms, search and seizure of the premises is likely to be at the discretion of the school, not its occupants.
Since when has logic ever been a part of the legal system? If you have money and time, you can defend yourself, if you don't, too bad. Do you think the police would jump so quickly if they thought this kid would be able to sic a half dozen lawyers on their asses?
This is obviously a preference thing. I can't expect to sway somoneone with convincing persuasion, so there is no point in even trying to justify football. As an illustration, however:
I have a couple of computers, one of them runs Linux, some of them are overclocked. I have an expensive DSL connection with 8 IP addresses. I'm a programmer. I have no girlfriend. I think I qualify as a geek, but I hate most geeky things.
sci-fi
fantasy fiction
RPG's
FPS games
UNIX (and family)
girlie bar drinks
etc.
Remember that you're unique, just like everyone else.
Yeah, but any one or more of the above subjects in a/. article is bound to get a certain percentage of the readership riled up.
I did not mention Python, OpenBSD, NetBSD, TrustedBSD, Theo de Raadt, et al. It was not because I forgot, it was because they suck and aren't worth mentioning.
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TIA for catching on to the deliberate sarcasm and/or irony of this comment, as well as the deference of comment by Anglophiles that undoubtedly tell me which/both/neither is appropriate otherwise.
Just about the only living things that will still exist in a billion years are cockroaches and mosquitos. Dinosaurs are pretty bad ass, but they (in general) couldn't even manage to survive for 200 million years. I'd be more concerned with an asteroid CRASHING INTO US in the space of a billion years than I would with the necessity of using one to change the earth's orbit.
Of course, we never expected our software to ever exist in the year 2000...
There are no production 760MP boards yet. I've heard that the release is almost definitely Q1. Perhaps they will be more than vapor later in H1 or early H2, but the chipset (and the motherboards) still need to be proven.
I would very much like to see a pair of dually GHz+ Tbirds with a GB of DDR RAM, but it just ain't going to happen.
The 760MP has been more than a passing interest to me lately, and I've been digging up information/rumors about it daily for the past week. This is what is sounds like:
One EV6 bus requires a hefty chunk of PCB. Two will require even more (of course). This means that DP Athlon boards will require as many as 8 layers to fit into an ATX form factor. IIRC, the industry standard is 4 or 6, so this would be a new (and likely expensive) manufacturing process that may require new tooling to produce in bulk.
Athlon boards are already more expensive than P3 boards, and I think the overall DP price/performance comparison isn't going to be that bad for Intel when/if 760MP ships.
Nah, your Dreamcast firewall would keep 'em out, and if they got past that, you could put a honey^H^H^H^H^H coffeepot on the network to distract 'em long enough to detect the intrusion;-)
There used to be an old sid for that, I believe it was called "rejected" sid=rejected
If there were still postings in there, you'd want to remember that the commentsort should be 1 to ensure that you see the newest comments first, if that isn't your default preference.
I confess to having something against all of the self-proclaimed interface gurus, but Jef Raskin in particular. It starts with his name, and it gets worse from there.
They are all BOFH's with the same MO. They flip on the "dummy mode" by telling people that everything they are doing is wrong, because it doesn't satisfy some set of outrageous criteria. Then they package some common sense ideas into a book and pimp it wherever they can. Like any other business subject, this is bestseller gold, because every PHB will want to read all those "expert opinions".
If Jakob Nielsen is such an interface expert, why doesn't everyone rave about how wonderful their Sun workstations are, and how much better they are than PC's, like the Mac folk do? Why do the Mac folk still think their nearly unchanged, decade old interface is better than Windows/GNOME/KDE?
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Some specialty cooling shops carry most/all of their lightweight plastic line, and you can probably find a bunch of the heavy duty aluminum ones at surplus stores like Ax-Man in the Twin Cities area. Ooh, I love that place.
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Ahh crap -- it's in kilos. You non USians have that annoying gravity agnostic measurement system...
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Would you dispute that Cobalt Networks and TiVo are the two biggest Linux success stories? These two companies have just one thing in common -- they leveraged the abilities of Linux systems with technologies that make them available to the masses. You already know how it was done -- they wrote graphical interfaces as abstractors to the chaos beneath.
Have fun using lynx and vi, if you even think that those are legitmate uses of Linux.
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A friend of mine had some problems with Telocity. After four days no service, and no contact from them, he finally managed to get ahold of the tech support department, who told them that he had a billing problem. The billing department got back to him a couple days later, and they told him that he owed $108. He paid, and got reconnected, but only after a week of downtime struggling through their "customer service".
He *tried* to make alternate arrangements, but none of the Northpoint ISP's he talked to seemed to understand that he ALREADY HAD THE DSL, and all they needed to do was flip a switch, as it were. They told him they could get things rolling in 6-8 weeks.
I still don't think that the ILECs are being fair to CLECs, since I had no difficulty obtaining DSL from my local monopoly, which I chose on the basis that the best ISP I could find only used Northpoint for IDSL (ack!). Unlike my friends using Covad and Northpoint (especially because we have other friends working for Northpoint), I have noticed only two failures for a total of three hours over the past year and a half. Fishy, isn't it?
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I have a 272 up/640 dn DSL connection from US^H^H Qwest. In terms of actual kiloBYTE performance, divide those numbers by a number slightly less than 10.
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With applications, people are forced into using the notion of tasks. If I started typing, using no application in particular, it might not be a bad idea to have some kind of buffer that intelligently determines what application that text is destined for.
If it saw the string: "#include", I wouldn't mind if the OS pasted that into my favorite text editor or C development environment. Similarly, if it saw the string: "to: someone@somewhere", I wouldn't object to having the OS fire up an email application.
If you went deeper into that thought and tried to make it more powerful, you would end up with something very similar to the W3C browser guidelines that
It's very similar to a command line, if you think about it. Netscape had phony protocols like wysiwyg, mocha, and so forth, but the feature set was fixed. Windows has facilities for a nearly infinite number of these "protocols" and tying them context handling libraries, although in practice, very few are implemented (res, ftp, http, gopher?). I know of only one application that uses their own (reg), which is the MicroPlanet RegStudio. From the command line, you would need to enter "start reg:(key name)", but within IE, a link to "reg:HKLM" would actually fire up RegStudio and open the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE key.
Anyway, I had that thought in my head. If Raskin used a better term than "word processor", I'd think of him as half the idiot I do presently think he is. Maybe he dumbs it down, maybe he's just that clueless. All I know is that self proclaimed UI gurus in general (*cough* Nielsen) piss me off, and Raskin is the most annoying of the bunch.
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The comparison *is* invalid. Remember that FPS measurements are averages, not sustained performance. 60fps isn't that great if the card slows down to 20 or less in a critical moment of the game when things get heavy. There is much to be said for people who claim to see the diff. at higher framerates.
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This is obviously a preference thing. I can't expect to sway somoneone with convincing persuasion, so there is no point in even trying to justify football. As an illustration, however:
I have a couple of computers, one of them runs Linux, some of them are overclocked. I have an expensive DSL connection with 8 IP addresses. I'm a programmer. I have no girlfriend. I think I qualify as a geek, but I hate most geeky things.
Remember that you're unique, just like everyone else.
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The results thus far:
http://www.thinkgeek.com/stuff/vi-emacs.html
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I did not mention Python, OpenBSD, NetBSD, TrustedBSD, Theo de Raadt, et al. It was not because I forgot, it was because they suck and aren't worth mentioning.
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TIA for catching on to the deliberate sarcasm and/or irony of this comment, as well as the deference of comment by Anglophiles that undoubtedly tell me which/both/neither is appropriate otherwise.
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Let's see a good clean fight.
Also on tonight's fight card:
GNOME vs. KDE
Perl vs. PHP
MySQL vs. Postgres
RMS vs. ESR
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The 760MP has been more than a passing interest to me lately, and I've been digging up information/rumors about it daily for the past week. This is what is sounds like:
One EV6 bus requires a hefty chunk of PCB. Two will require even more (of course). This means that DP Athlon boards will require as many as 8 layers to fit into an ATX form factor. IIRC, the industry standard is 4 or 6, so this would be a new (and likely expensive) manufacturing process that may require new tooling to produce in bulk.
Athlon boards are already more expensive than P3 boards, and I think the overall DP price/performance comparison isn't going to be that bad for Intel when/if 760MP ships.
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If there were still postings in there, you'd want to remember that the commentsort should be 1 to ensure that you see the newest comments first, if that isn't your default preference.
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They are all BOFH's with the same MO. They flip on the "dummy mode" by telling people that everything they are doing is wrong, because it doesn't satisfy some set of outrageous criteria. Then they package some common sense ideas into a book and pimp it wherever they can. Like any other business subject, this is bestseller gold, because every PHB will want to read all those "expert opinions".
If Jakob Nielsen is such an interface expert, why doesn't everyone rave about how wonderful their Sun workstations are, and how much better they are than PC's, like the Mac folk do? Why do the Mac folk still think their nearly unchanged, decade old interface is better than Windows/GNOME/KDE?
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