Maybe it's just me, but "variable-position" means "same motion" to me, where as photoshop's style of menu means I have to make a different (series) of motions to get to the same menu I'm a right-click away from in The Gimp. Also, Gimp/GTK menus are tareable (baring the wrath of the gnome "Make it stupid" interface guidelines), so if you're using a function a lot you can just tear that menu off and put it somewhere convineint. Or, if you really use it a lot you can very easily assign it a hotkey by hilighting the menu item and hitting the key you want.
I havn't seen that much effort placed into easing the workflow in PS, but I don't use PS much.
Ever heard of DID (Direct Inward Dial)? Trunks and phone numbers are in no way connected. It's trivially easy to have unique telephone & FAX number for everybody in a 500 person company(1000 numbers), and still only have two T1s (48 trunks) feeding them. It's really neat stuff. Most VoIP gateways take in T1s directly, and support DID so that they can support all sorts of interesting configurations after they are handed calls from the CO. Vontage might have something spiffier, with higher capacity lines and maybe SS7 signaling instead of T1+DID, but the net effect is the same: They tell the local monopoly exchange to send all call for the numbers Vontage operates to their trunk group.
ME! Not that I've been sipping the Amiga koolaid. I've never actually seen one powered on, but this is a sweet little PPC system in a nice small MiniITX formfactor, what's not to like? Will it replace the Dual Opteron I'm plotting for keeping the air conditioner running? Hell no, but it would probably make an awesome PVR box with a G4 in there. Or, a small light-use terminal for when I don't want to put on ear muffs and wind goggles to approch the fans in the Opteron.
Eww, I gotta know, WHY? Why would you want so much swap? Not that there actually is a problem with it though: kbob:~# lvcreate -l 399 -n someswap pile
lvcreate -- doing automatic backup of "pile"
lvcreate -- logical volume "/dev/pile/someswap" successfully created
kbob:~# mkswap/dev/pile/someswap
Setting up swapspace version 1, size = 6694105 kB
kbob:~# swapon/dev/pile/someswap
kbob:~# free
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 417464 414200 3264 0 146144 73688
-/+ buffers/cache: 194368 223096
Swap: 7067344 131164 6936180
kbob:~#
You mumbled something about a volume manager too?
Hey! I bought one of each generation...all two of them. They did kinda suck performance wise, but when they did get around to rendering a frame it didn't look like ass like the voodoos.
I think I still have one of them too. I was keeping it until I could get around to writing some sort of graphics demo that ran completely from the GPU( yes, the thing really had a brain, with branching and everything. nVidia and ATI still hasn't cought up with that. Alas I still havn't gotten around to writing and assembler and I'm not sure where the cards are anymore... Maybe I could give one to a bored CS student, yeah!.
The only feature worth having in ME - System Restore
You mean the one what "helpfully" makes it imposible for AV software to remove Blaster by "helpfully" to a magical folder not even administrators (or LOCAL_SYSTEM) can clean it out? All the "I found blaster but I can't delete it" errors from Sophos made the users comfortable until we were able to flush System Restore on each system.
If you want to go snow boarding you don't start by buying a wood working shop to make your own snow board. You go buy a board.
No, you go to the shop and look at the hundreds of different boards and pick one you like the color of and the shape and try it out. If you try it and don't like it, try another one. This isn't brain surgery, hell it's not even as complicated as tieing your own shoes and there is NO commitment. It's not like your stuck with your first snow board for the next 15 years.
Choosing between IceWm, KDE, and Gnome isn't where I want to spend my time.
So click "Next" and use the first thing the shopkeeper suggests. Is "yeah, sure, whatever" that hard a concept to people? Or do they just turn off their brains and put them in a drawer when they see blinkinlits? Err, nevermind, they do.
Not filesystems, but LVM has done this for a while. Leave a bit of space in your VG to store the data you change (so you still have it around) and you can create snapshots of the block device. Then you just mount those snapshots somewhere and do what you need to do. Works great for making consistant backups. XFS lets you take it a step farther with xfs_freeze, which will put the filesystem in a consistant state before to take the snapshot. That means you don't have to make the snapshot RW to do a log replay or fsck, and that things like writes arn't half done.
LVM snapshots know nothing about files, it's just a simple Copy-On-Write action, storing backup copies of any data blocks that are changed. There is probably more space overhead then NetApps but it gets the job done.
Oh, it's not all that bad, you would just have to explicitly destroy the data instead of assuming it'll just go away. Just like you have throw away your coke can when it no longer serves a useful purpose for you. With "Orthogonal Persistence" your "coke can" will still be there if you forget about it, right where you left it, until you throw it away.
Not that I'm fully sold on it, but it is an interestingly missing concept in human-computer relations. Ideally I think the "undo journal" should be kept with the data. If the data is always going to be "current state" you will need to have a way to back out even if something goes wrong between the addition of the unwanted and when you decide you don't want it.
Unfortunately, have you evere d/l'ed an iso w. your browser only to find that its' md5 is crap?
No. Also, the only way besides not downloading all of it the only way you should be able to ruin the md5sum over either FTP or HTTP(Both just shoving the raw data over a TCP socket) is by not downloading all of it.
If browsers are causing you so much trouble maybe you should consider wget
the overhead for http as opposed to ftp varies between 10% and 20%
10% is VERY high estimation for "GET/pub/linux/kernel/v2.4/linux-2.4.21.tar.bz2 HTTP/1.1" then 30M of binary goo
With FTP that would be something like:
USER anonymous
PASS noneof@yourbusiness.net
CWD/pub/linux/kernel/v2.4/
BIN
PASV
RETR linux-2.4.20.tar.bz2 ...binary good over a different socket
Where is this imaginary overhead coming from again?
And NOT repeat it 3 times every comercial break. Hell, don't even let the network show the exact same god damned comerical(s) every break with no variation.
For instance download dialogs could minimize to icons and change color depending of their degree of completeness (a complete download glows of translucent green).
Since nobody else seems to have mentioned it I will. IE 5 on MacOS9 used to do this. When you download something the file would imediatly appear (no hiding off in some mystical temp space) as a partial download. The icon would have a vertical "thermometer" that would bet filled as the file downloaded. It was actually pretty useful, and I'm kinda sad to see it doesn't appear to have survived into OSX.
No "download manager" window, or even a dialog box. Just the file with it's status on it. Of course, with live SVG icons you should be able to make it pop-up with more details than a rough percentage on command. Hmm, yummy.
The AIRFRAME was 1/3 through it's designed life cycle. Not the hoses, not the gaskets, not the tiles, not the avionics.
The life cycle of the airframe was 10years, 100 missions. Stuff ages even if it's not in use, sometimes worse than when it is in use. I'd think rusting on the ground, having to support it's own weight would be much harder on the airframe than floating in space, even with the stresses of launches and landings.
That being said, it's definatly time to redesign our orbiters. With advances in materials, propolsion, and general knowledge we've gained since the STS's were designed we should be able to make a new vehicle that is able to take over the same missions using less drastic, and probably safter, take-off and landing procedures.
The one thing that jumped into my mind was decelerating slowing by taking more time to drop. This would probably require the application of thrust during reentry, but the thin atmosphere, obscene high speeds of initial reentry are exactly where technology like SCRAM-Jets excel. If you can keep from falling like a brick then the perfect state of the tiles becomes much less critical.
Just a random musing. This would probably be 5-10 years out anyway.
Hey, you just gave me an excelent idea. I'm going to start going around an renaming "My Computer" to "CompanyName Computer INVENTORYNUMBER" as I have to deal with systems. Just as a reminder. I may even lookup where the name can be locked down from so I don't have to go hunting for "234653337]74&%^*&^%&%$" on every other computer.
Sucks to be you. American cartoons can be quite enjoyable to adults too. And not all animation is a cartoons either. There's lots of animation on iFilm and AtomFilms that wouldn't count as cartoons.
Having read the thread in -1 I feel I must add that you don't need to automatically delete anything when you're using a spam filtering system. For both my personal domain (lots of addresses each used for a different set of mailing lists) and my work acccount (oops, I have Key3Media my email, bad idea) I have SpamAssassin score the messages then have procmail throw the bad ones into a spam box. A quick scan of the subject lines in that box is enough to make sure that nothing was mistagged.
It isn't perfect, I do get false positives but they are usually "You're the winner" messages from eBay sellers and are easy to spot and rescue. At work I go as far as to archive all messages for a month or two just in case something gets lost.
I really should go through the archives and check the ratio of X-Spam-Status: Yes to No's is.
That's not how I meant that. I meant to say that it's not millons of people that have trouble, but tens of millions of people who are baffled by the mysterious magic that is MS Word.
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Maybe it's just me, but "variable-position" means "same motion" to me, where as photoshop's style of menu means I have to make a different (series) of motions to get to the same menu I'm a right-click away from in The Gimp. Also, Gimp/GTK menus are tareable (baring the wrath of the gnome "Make it stupid" interface guidelines), so if you're using a function a lot you can just tear that menu off and put it somewhere convineint. Or, if you really use it a lot you can very easily assign it a hotkey by hilighting the menu item and hitting the key you want.
I havn't seen that much effort placed into easing the workflow in PS, but I don't use PS much.
- RustyTaco
Ever heard of DID (Direct Inward Dial)? Trunks and phone numbers are in no way connected. It's trivially easy to have unique telephone & FAX number for everybody in a 500 person company(1000 numbers), and still only have two T1s (48 trunks) feeding them. It's really neat stuff. Most VoIP gateways take in T1s directly, and support DID so that they can support all sorts of interesting configurations after they are handed calls from the CO. Vontage might have something spiffier, with higher capacity lines and maybe SS7 signaling instead of T1+DID, but the net effect is the same: They tell the local monopoly exchange to send all call for the numbers Vontage operates to their trunk group.
- RustyTaco
ME! Not that I've been sipping the Amiga koolaid. I've never actually seen one powered on, but this is a sweet little PPC system in a nice small MiniITX formfactor, what's not to like? Will it replace the Dual Opteron I'm plotting for keeping the air conditioner running? Hell no, but it would probably make an awesome PVR box with a G4 in there. Or, a small light-use terminal for when I don't want to put on ear muffs and wind goggles to approch the fans in the Opteron.
- RustyTaco
kbob:~# lvcreate -l 399 -n someswap pile
lvcreate -- doing automatic backup of "pile"
lvcreate -- logical volume "/dev/pile/someswap" successfully created
kbob:~# mkswap
Setting up swapspace version 1, size = 6694105 kB
kbob:~# swapon
kbob:~# free
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 417464 414200 3264 0 146144 73688
-/+ buffers/cache: 194368 223096
Swap: 7067344 131164 6936180
kbob:~#
You mumbled something about a volume manager too?
- RustyTaco
Hey! I bought one of each generation...all two of them. They did kinda suck performance wise, but when they did get around to rendering a frame it didn't look like ass like the voodoos.
I think I still have one of them too. I was keeping it until I could get around to writing some sort of graphics demo that ran completely from the GPU( yes, the thing really had a brain, with branching and everything. nVidia and ATI still hasn't cought up with that. Alas I still havn't gotten around to writing and assembler and I'm not sure where the cards are anymore... Maybe I could give one to a bored CS student, yeah!.
- RustyTaco
- RustyTaco
So click "Next" and use the first thing the shopkeeper suggests. Is "yeah, sure, whatever" that hard a concept to people? Or do they just turn off their brains and put them in a drawer when they see blinkinlits? Err, nevermind, they do.
- RustyTaco
Not filesystems, but LVM has done this for a while. Leave a bit of space in your VG to store the data you change (so you still have it around) and you can create snapshots of the block device. Then you just mount those snapshots somewhere and do what you need to do. Works great for making consistant backups. XFS lets you take it a step farther with xfs_freeze, which will put the filesystem in a consistant state before to take the snapshot. That means you don't have to make the snapshot RW to do a log replay or fsck, and that things like writes arn't half done.
LVM snapshots know nothing about files, it's just a simple Copy-On-Write action, storing backup copies of any data blocks that are changed. There is probably more space overhead then NetApps but it gets the job done.
Oh, it's not all that bad, you would just have to explicitly destroy the data instead of assuming it'll just go away. Just like you have throw away your coke can when it no longer serves a useful purpose for you. With "Orthogonal Persistence" your "coke can" will still be there if you forget about it, right where you left it, until you throw it away.
Not that I'm fully sold on it, but it is an interestingly missing concept in human-computer relations. Ideally I think the "undo journal" should be kept with the data. If the data is always going to be "current state" you will need to have a way to back out even if something goes wrong between the addition of the unwanted and when you decide you don't want it.
- RustyTaco
If browsers are causing you so much trouble maybe you should consider wget
- RustyTaco
With FTP that would be something like:
USER anonymous
PASS noneof@yourbusiness.net
CWD
BIN
PASV
RETR linux-2.4.20.tar.bz2
Where is this imaginary overhead coming from again?
- RustyTaco
Add firewire and I'll bust out a credit card. iPod + OGG for $250 would work too, but FM definatly wouldn't hurt.
- RustyTaco
Tetrinet! What could be better/more addicting than head-to-head tetris!
- RustyTaco
And NOT repeat it 3 times every comercial break. Hell, don't even let the network show the exact same god damned comerical(s) every break with no variation.
- RustyTaco
- RustyTaco
No "download manager" window, or even a dialog box. Just the file with it's status on it. Of course, with live SVG icons you should be able to make it pop-up with more details than a rough percentage on command. Hmm, yummy.
- RustyTaco
The AIRFRAME was 1/3 through it's designed life cycle. Not the hoses, not the gaskets, not the tiles, not the avionics.
The life cycle of the airframe was 10years, 100 missions. Stuff ages even if it's not in use, sometimes worse than when it is in use. I'd think rusting on the ground, having to support it's own weight would be much harder on the airframe than floating in space, even with the stresses of launches and landings.
That being said, it's definatly time to redesign our orbiters. With advances in materials, propolsion, and general knowledge we've gained since the STS's were designed we should be able to make a new vehicle that is able to take over the same missions using less drastic, and probably safter, take-off and landing procedures.
The one thing that jumped into my mind was decelerating slowing by taking more time to drop. This would probably require the application of thrust during reentry, but the thin atmosphere, obscene high speeds of initial reentry are exactly where technology like SCRAM-Jets excel. If you can keep from falling like a brick then the perfect state of the tiles becomes much less critical.
Just a random musing. This would probably be 5-10 years out anyway.
- RustyTaco
- RustyTaco
Hey, you just gave me an excelent idea. I'm going to start going around an renaming "My Computer" to "CompanyName Computer INVENTORYNUMBER" as I have to deal with systems. Just as a reminder. I may even lookup where the name can be locked down from so I don't have to go hunting for "234653337]74&%^*&^%&%$" on every other computer.
- RustyTaco
Sucks to be you. American cartoons can be quite enjoyable to adults too. And not all animation is a cartoons either. There's lots of animation on iFilm and AtomFilms that wouldn't count as cartoons.
- RustyTaco
Yes. Yes they do.
- RustyTaco
Where exactly is it billed as a replacement for UniCenter TNG?
- RustyTaco
- RustyTaco
Having read the thread in -1 I feel I must add that you don't need to automatically delete anything when you're using a spam filtering system. For both my personal domain (lots of addresses each used for a different set of mailing lists) and my work acccount (oops, I have Key3Media my email, bad idea) I have SpamAssassin score the messages then have procmail throw the bad ones into a spam box. A quick scan of the subject lines in that box is enough to make sure that nothing was mistagged.
It isn't perfect, I do get false positives but they are usually "You're the winner" messages from eBay sellers and are easy to spot and rescue. At work I go as far as to archive all messages for a month or two just in case something gets lost.
I really should go through the archives and check the ratio of X-Spam-Status: Yes to No's is.
- RustyTaco
That's not how I meant that. I meant to say that it's not millons of people that have trouble, but tens of millions of people who are baffled by the mysterious magic that is MS Word.
- RustyTaco