HL2 drags a bit on my new rig with a 6600GT (PCI-E), and it would have been murder on on my old machine with a Radeon 9k. I'm just wondering what the folks who got the free copy of HL2 with their Radeon 9200 and 9600's think.:-p
Interestingly enough, though, I can run CS:S at a higher res, and it's silky-smooth with the new card.
Still, it's all about DOD:S. When, oh, when will that be out, so I can get away from the little bitches playing CS?
He wasn't convicted under CAN-SPAM, he was convicted under Virginia's Anti-Spam law, passed before CAN-SPAM, and more stringent. Virginia is long-arming the spammers, because the way the law is written, any spam that travels over telco in the Commonwealth, Virginia has can prosecute. Since some ungodly percentage of the world's internet traffic travels through Northern Virginia, there is a real potential that many spammers will be residing in correctional facilities in the Old Dominion soon.
Yep. I live outside a town of 16k, and there's three local pizza joints (all very good), and a Dominos. I think only Dominos delivers, but the quality of the pizza at one of the other places makes it my first choice a lot of the time, even if I have to hop in the car for ten minutes.
The town also has a McDonalds, and a Subway.
This is true in lots of places. But people don't get out enough to realize it.
What you *do* miss, however, are the sit-down chain places. No TGIFriday's. No Ruby Tuesday. No Bennigan's, etc. etc.
I am amazed that you cite the deprecation of civil liberties as a problem but in the same breath defile the concept of equality.
There are lots of people like me around. I do not believe in "social justice" at all. I don't see where separate but equal enters the discussion at all. Ensuring equal facilities at the government level is one thing. Robbing Peter to feed Paul is another thing altogether. If you have a right to eat, and I have a responsibility to provide your meal for you, I am your slave. Last time I checked, we don't do slavery in the US.
You were taking a gamble if you were voting for Bush because Ashcroft was leaving. I'm not saying voting for Kerry would have been any less of a gamble
Getting rid of Ashcroft wasn't the only reason I voted for Bush, but the realization that there wasn't a snowball's chance in hell that he'd be back made the decision a bit easier. The point is....Democrats, historically, have been better on civil liberties than Republicans. The Clinton Administration threw all of that away, and they were worse than Reagan or GHW Bush. So, is it a milquetoast Republican, or a Janet Reno disciple? Still, it's only a small part of the equation. There were other good reasons I supported Bush (and I didn't vote for him in 2000).
Giuliani was a much better US Attorney than he was mayor. I could probably live with Giuliani, but I'd much prefer to see someone like Marc Rasciot (former MT gov) or Jim Gilmore (former Va. gov and atty gen).
A darkhorse who'd also be a good candidate is former Calif. Rep. Jim Rogan. He won't be nominated, though, because he was one of the impeachment prosecutors against Clinton. Bob Barr falls into the same category.
Ah, just like a socialist.....spread the misery equally.
One of the reasons I voted for Bush is I knew that Ashcroft wouldn't be back. Janet Reno was pretty bad on civil liberties, too, and she wasn't fighting an international terror threat.
John Kerry's senate record isn't sparkling when it comes to liberty, either.
Whoever modded this interesting is a fool. But, as this election cycle has shown, there's lots of those around.
Many, many, states have websites that'll give totals as they roll in. Here's the page for Virginia.
Still, the best way is to start watching the returns as the polls close. I think the earliest closings are 6p EST. I think we'll probably have a good idea of the winner by 11p EST. If Kerry doesn't take Ohio and Florida, I don't think he'll be able to make it up in the Mountain states and the west.
Matt Drudge said he will run exit-polilng data through the day. He did during the 2002 election. The major networks agreed to stop doing this after the 2000 problems.
Actually, it would have been 21 - 20, as the Packers scored a 2-point conversion after the interception to make it 28 (they kicked two field goals earlier in the game).
I get sick of the "uneducated electorate" argument. Guess what, lots of people don't care about politics. It's self-imposed ignorance.
I've given up worrying about them -- they're beyond help. The only time they get interested in politics is when they feel they can vote themselves a benefit at someone else's expense.
Maybe that's why Democrats try so hard to target them?
So, in essence, the machines are nothing more than fancy barcode printers. What's the point, then? You've got a more expensive version of the optical scan ballots used in many places already.
If you have a receipt, voucher, whatever, and the ability for the voter to verify, there has to be a mechanism to change a vote when the voter says there's a mistake.
That opens up a *huge* hole, where a bad apple who wants to can change votes can do so at will.
What you do is build in a final check, where a screen is flashed up with a summary of votes before they're actually tabulated, i.e.
Thank You. You chose: George Bush for President Richard Cheney for Vice President Satan Beezelbub for Representative of the 352nd District of California Gary Coleman for Senate from California
Is this correct? Yes/No
I agree that there should be a paper tape spit out afterward, but it shouldn't go to the voter.
Functionally, WindowMaker works fine. I use it from time to time, and really don't have problems with it. But it's not very customiziable. Menu-editing is a bit of a pain. It also doesn't play very nice with Gworkspace somtimes, fighting over who is going to draw the desktop. Really, once you've got GWorkspace running, all you need is something that'll allow you to place windows, and switch between tasks.
I will admit that very recently, some of the GNUStep stuff was stuff that only a mother could love.
However, in the past few months, the interface has come a long way, and things look much better now. No, it doesn't have the eye-candy of Gnome, KDE, or OSX, but it's not really ugly anymore.
FWIW, the real thing, NeXTStep looks very nice on my low-res monochrome NeXT monitor, in much the same way old MacOS looks okay on an old Mac.
WindowMaker, the WM most people use for GNUStep is kind of in need of help, too. There have been a couple of GNUStep/Cocoa WM projects, but nothing's ever really gotten off the ground.
But this is not about Jon's show. It's about the political process in the US.
Actually, it's not. Look at the numbers. In the grand scheme of things (probably about 180mil US voters), hardly anyone watches Crossfire, Hardball, Hannity and Colmes, or any of the rest of them.
The people who eat this stuff for dinner are really concerned about the effect, but the ignore the fact that they're really the only ones watching.
People who watch "news" watch maybe a half hour a day, and that's often a local newscast. Only the political junkies are tuned in to these shows. They don't have that big an effect. You want real effect, you have to start looking at the things with big audiences (i.e. Rush Limbaugh, with 20mil. listeners a week).
I can remove one of the software-RAID1 SATA drives (hot, cold, whatever), plug it into any other SATA system, and it'll boot and run. I cannot do this with hardware RAID unless I have the same make and model controller on-hand.
But you can, in most instances, run the drive without the controller if it fails. I've had this happen -- boot the rescue kernel, edit the fstab, fsck, and off you go....
Then when the replacement controller comes in, you rebuild the array.
I'm not at all hip to waiting two years for Debian to get around to blessing a three-year-old version of amavis or clamav. So I'd be either compiling those myself, or using "unstable" debs with unstable dependancies. And then, it's not -stable anymore.
Most packages like that have backports built against the stable release. No, they're not official packages, but they work well for the most part. For a mail server, however, I agree, you have to really stay on top of things. My mail servers don't run Debian for that reason. Other machines where being cutting-edge is not that important, I get by with dated, but very stable packages.
I've been fucked by FreeBSD-current too many times (and the ports collection is in not, in any way, superior to portage), though filesystem snapshots are cool. -stable works better, but it takes Way Too Long for features to creep over to it.
I don't use either one -- I only use releases that have RELENG_ tags. And I'm utterly unimpressed with FreeBSD-5. I have several machines running RELENG_4_X, and rarely have a problem with them. Hardware support is normally fast enough. And, when you think about it, if the release supports your hardware to begin with.....what new features do you need?
And the monolithic "make installworld" routine is frightening, at best. I don't have the resources to have identical testing machines to see what got trashed in CVS today.
Once you ditch sendmail, OpenSSL, BIND, and Perl from the base install (which I do on all my machines), it becomes much easier to deal with. And, again, the RELENG tags with cvsup kind of keep things from getting totally borked. In many cases, once you've got a solid system, you don't need to do make buildworld/installworld very often -- you only do make/make install in the part you've updated due to a security patch or whatever.
I run Exim4/Exiscan/ClamAV/SpamAssassin on my one of my mail servers, and I've never had a problem upgrading it from ports with portupgrade. The other mail server I maintain runs qmail/vpopmail, etc., and I build everything by hand there, for the most part. It's just too weird to rely on any package manager for.
And I thought that NetBSD died in the womb. I might be wrong, but I think I read that here, somewhere...
You really ought to try it again sometime. It's a very nice system for things you want to set-and-forget. And, IMHO, pkgsrc is one of the best package managers up there. Update your makefiles (rsync, tar, cvsup, cvs, whatever). cd path/to/app....make upgrade.
It supports dual-channel ECC RAM, so I picked up a couple of quarter-gig sticks of that. Could've gotten more, but remember, this is a -budget- server.
ECC is one of the most important things you can do.
And for good measure, I included a Pioneer DVD-R for offline backups. I hate tapes.
Daily rsync to another machine and a tape drive for monthly full-system backups. Considering the lifespan that CD-R's have shown, I don't expect that DVD-R's will ultimately be much better.
Killed the hardware RAID in favor of Linux's software RAID1. I have no intentions of ever marrying a computer's software to something as general and failure-prone as a modern motherboard - out-of-the-box RAID is a great way to fuck yourself at disaster-recovery time.
Software RAID with Linux I do use, but I do not rely upon it, as I've been bitten by it a couple of times, where it didn't work exactly as it should.
A SATA or standard ATA controller that'll do RAID-1 and is supported by Linux isn't that expensive now, and most halfway decent computer shops carry them.
It runs Gentoo, and and filters and tosses mail something like twenty times the rate of the old E-Machines consumerbox (which had buried itself in backlogged mail a few times).
Say no more. You're aiming right at stability and well-tested software! Get with some Debian-stable, FreeBSD, or NetBSD, and you'll be in much better shape. They actually do some QA on their system.
So, what's the solution, then? Leaving unsolved cases unsolved, because you, personally, don't believe it's the right way to go about investigating things?
In this case, if you'd bothered to read the article, the detective turned to google after the standard means came up empty. Note the dates -- this guy had been missing for eleven years. I've worked in law enforcement....sometimes you don't always find the information you need in police databases. They're old systems, often difficult to use (even for a geek like me). And sharing of data amongst localities isn't always the best. It took years to get the NCIC established so that officers can check for outstanding warrants nationwide. Things like missing persons data isn't as centralized.
Clear Channel (a part owner of XM) will put Rush Limbaugh on XM. He's their one major talk show missing from XM right now.
It'll piss the affiliates off (I work for one, full disclosure here), but it's something they can do to counter.
The thing is, this doesn't happen for another fifteen months. What will happen to Sirius in the meantime? I don't think most of the Stern fans are going to go and pay for service fifteen months out.....Clear Channel can put Limbaugh on XM tomorrow.
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Great. Y'all run out and buy one. I'll stick with a real vehicle. 20 miles a gallon doesn't bother me too much.
Can't Honda bring something like the CRX back? Didn't those get like 55mpg, while being a halfway substantial car (albeit for only two people)?
As for its appearance, "cool" is a very subjective term.
HL2 drags a bit on my new rig with a 6600GT (PCI-E), and it would have been murder on on my old machine with a Radeon 9k. I'm just wondering what the folks who got the free copy of HL2 with their Radeon 9200 and 9600's think. :-p
Interestingly enough, though, I can run CS:S at a higher res, and it's silky-smooth with the new card.
Still, it's all about DOD:S. When, oh, when will that be out, so I can get away from the little bitches playing CS?
He wasn't convicted under CAN-SPAM, he was convicted under Virginia's Anti-Spam law, passed before CAN-SPAM, and more stringent. Virginia is long-arming the spammers, because the way the law is written, any spam that travels over telco in the Commonwealth, Virginia has can prosecute. Since some ungodly percentage of the world's internet traffic travels through Northern Virginia, there is a real potential that many spammers will be residing in correctional facilities in the Old Dominion soon.
AFAIK, PPC970 and POWER chips are not bi-endian....big-endian only.
Yep. I live outside a town of 16k, and there's three local pizza joints (all very good), and a Dominos. I think only Dominos delivers, but the quality of the pizza at one of the other places makes it my first choice a lot of the time, even if I have to hop in the car for ten minutes.
The town also has a McDonalds, and a Subway.
This is true in lots of places. But people don't get out enough to realize it.
What you *do* miss, however, are the sit-down chain places. No TGIFriday's. No Ruby Tuesday. No Bennigan's, etc. etc.
Having kids is a choice.
I am amazed that you cite the deprecation of civil liberties as a problem but in the same breath defile the concept of equality.
There are lots of people like me around. I do not believe in "social justice" at all. I don't see where separate but equal enters the discussion at all. Ensuring equal facilities at the government level is one thing. Robbing Peter to feed Paul is another thing altogether. If you have a right to eat, and I have a responsibility to provide your meal for you, I am your slave. Last time I checked, we don't do slavery in the US.
You were taking a gamble if you were voting for Bush because Ashcroft was leaving. I'm not saying voting for Kerry would have been any less of a gamble
Getting rid of Ashcroft wasn't the only reason I voted for Bush, but the realization that there wasn't a snowball's chance in hell that he'd be back made the decision a bit easier. The point is....Democrats, historically, have been better on civil liberties than Republicans. The Clinton Administration threw all of that away, and they were worse than Reagan or GHW Bush. So, is it a milquetoast Republican, or a Janet Reno disciple? Still, it's only a small part of the equation. There were other good reasons I supported Bush (and I didn't vote for him in 2000).
Giuliani was a much better US Attorney than he was mayor. I could probably live with Giuliani, but I'd much prefer to see someone like Marc Rasciot (former MT gov) or Jim Gilmore (former Va. gov and atty gen).
A darkhorse who'd also be a good candidate is former Calif. Rep. Jim Rogan. He won't be nominated, though, because he was one of the impeachment prosecutors against Clinton. Bob Barr falls into the same category.
Ah, just like a socialist.....spread the misery equally.
One of the reasons I voted for Bush is I knew that Ashcroft wouldn't be back. Janet Reno was pretty bad on civil liberties, too, and she wasn't fighting an international terror threat.
John Kerry's senate record isn't sparkling when it comes to liberty, either.
Whoever modded this interesting is a fool. But, as this election cycle has shown, there's lots of those around.
Click here!
They didn't do it in 2000, when four networks called Florida for Gore before the polls were closed state-wide.
Many, many, states have websites that'll give totals as they roll in. Here's the page for Virginia.
Still, the best way is to start watching the returns as the polls close. I think the earliest closings are 6p EST. I think we'll probably have a good idea of the winner by 11p EST. If Kerry doesn't take Ohio and Florida, I don't think he'll be able to make it up in the Mountain states and the west.
Matt Drudge said he will run exit-polilng data through the day. He did during the 2002 election. The major networks agreed to stop doing this after the 2000 problems.
Actually, it would have been 21 - 20, as the Packers scored a 2-point conversion after the interception to make it 28 (they kicked two field goals earlier in the game).
the beta of sol10 x86 I've been running uses x.org. No problems at all with my Radeon 9k. Accel 2D only.
I get sick of the "uneducated electorate" argument. Guess what, lots of people don't care about politics. It's self-imposed ignorance.
I've given up worrying about them -- they're beyond help. The only time they get interested in politics is when they feel they can vote themselves a benefit at someone else's expense.
Maybe that's why Democrats try so hard to target them?
So, in essence, the machines are nothing more than fancy barcode printers. What's the point, then? You've got a more expensive version of the optical scan ballots used in many places already.
I disagree.
If you have a receipt, voucher, whatever, and the ability for the voter to verify, there has to be a mechanism to change a vote when the voter says there's a mistake.
That opens up a *huge* hole, where a bad apple who wants to can change votes can do so at will.
What you do is build in a final check, where a screen is flashed up with a summary of votes before they're actually tabulated, i.e.
Thank You.
You chose:
George Bush for President
Richard Cheney for Vice President
Satan Beezelbub for Representative of the 352nd District of California
Gary Coleman for Senate from California
Is this correct?
Yes/No
I agree that there should be a paper tape spit out afterward, but it shouldn't go to the voter.
Functionally, WindowMaker works fine. I use it from time to time, and really don't have problems with it. But it's not very customiziable. Menu-editing is a bit of a pain. It also doesn't play very nice with Gworkspace somtimes, fighting over who is going to draw the desktop. Really, once you've got GWorkspace running, all you need is something that'll allow you to place windows, and switch between tasks.
I will admit that very recently, some of the GNUStep stuff was stuff that only a mother could love.
However, in the past few months, the interface has come a long way, and things look much better now. No, it doesn't have the eye-candy of Gnome, KDE, or OSX, but it's not really ugly anymore.
FWIW, the real thing, NeXTStep looks very nice on my low-res monochrome NeXT monitor, in much the same way old MacOS looks okay on an old Mac.
WindowMaker, the WM most people use for GNUStep is kind of in need of help, too. There have been a couple of GNUStep/Cocoa WM projects, but nothing's ever really gotten off the ground.
But this is not about Jon's show. It's about the political process in the US.
Actually, it's not. Look at the numbers. In the grand scheme of things (probably about 180mil US voters), hardly anyone watches Crossfire, Hardball, Hannity and Colmes, or any of the rest of them.
The people who eat this stuff for dinner are really concerned about the effect, but the ignore the fact that they're really the only ones watching.
People who watch "news" watch maybe a half hour a day, and that's often a local newscast. Only the political junkies are tuned in to these shows. They don't have that big an effect. You want real effect, you have to start looking at the things with big audiences (i.e. Rush Limbaugh, with 20mil. listeners a week).
I can remove one of the software-RAID1 SATA drives (hot, cold, whatever), plug it into any other SATA system, and it'll boot and run. I cannot do this with hardware RAID unless I have the same make and model controller on-hand.
But you can, in most instances, run the drive without the controller if it fails. I've had this happen -- boot the rescue kernel, edit the fstab, fsck, and off you go....
Then when the replacement controller comes in, you rebuild the array.
I'm not at all hip to waiting two years for Debian to get around to blessing a three-year-old version of amavis or clamav. So I'd be either compiling those myself, or using "unstable" debs with unstable dependancies. And then, it's not -stable anymore.
Most packages like that have backports built against the stable release. No, they're not official packages, but they work well for the most part. For a mail server, however, I agree, you have to really stay on top of things. My mail servers don't run Debian for that reason. Other machines where being cutting-edge is not that important, I get by with dated, but very stable packages.
I've been fucked by FreeBSD-current too many times (and the ports collection is in not, in any way, superior to portage), though filesystem snapshots are cool. -stable works better, but it takes Way Too Long for features to creep over to it.
I don't use either one -- I only use releases that have RELENG_ tags. And I'm utterly unimpressed with FreeBSD-5. I have several machines running RELENG_4_X, and rarely have a problem with them. Hardware support is normally fast enough. And, when you think about it, if the release supports your hardware to begin with.....what new features do you need?
And the monolithic "make installworld" routine is frightening, at best. I don't have the resources to have identical testing machines to see what got trashed in CVS today.
Once you ditch sendmail, OpenSSL, BIND, and Perl from the base install (which I do on all my machines), it becomes much easier to deal with. And, again, the RELENG tags with cvsup kind of keep things from getting totally borked. In many cases, once you've got a solid system, you don't need to do make buildworld/installworld very often -- you only do make/make install in the part you've updated due to a security patch or whatever.
I run Exim4/Exiscan/ClamAV/SpamAssassin on my one of my mail servers, and I've never had a problem upgrading it from ports with portupgrade. The other mail server I maintain runs qmail/vpopmail, etc., and I build everything by hand there, for the most part. It's just too weird to rely on any package manager for.
And I thought that NetBSD died in the womb. I might be wrong, but I think I read that here, somewhere...
You really ought to try it again sometime. It's a very nice system for things you want to set-and-forget. And, IMHO, pkgsrc is one of the best package managers up there. Update your makefiles (rsync, tar, cvsup, cvs, whatever). cd path/to/app....make upgrade.
It supports dual-channel ECC RAM, so I picked up a couple of quarter-gig sticks of that. Could've gotten more, but remember, this is a -budget- server.
ECC is one of the most important things you can do.
And for good measure, I included a Pioneer DVD-R for offline backups. I hate tapes.
Daily rsync to another machine and a tape drive for monthly full-system backups. Considering the lifespan that CD-R's have shown, I don't expect that DVD-R's will ultimately be much better.
Killed the hardware RAID in favor of Linux's software RAID1. I have no intentions of ever marrying a computer's software to something as general and failure-prone as a modern motherboard - out-of-the-box RAID is a great way to fuck yourself at disaster-recovery time.
Software RAID with Linux I do use, but I do not rely upon it, as I've been bitten by it a couple of times, where it didn't work exactly as it should.
A SATA or standard ATA controller that'll do RAID-1 and is supported by Linux isn't that expensive now, and most halfway decent computer shops carry them.
It runs Gentoo, and and filters and tosses mail something like twenty times the rate of the old E-Machines consumerbox (which had buried itself in backlogged mail a few times).
Say no more. You're aiming right at stability and well-tested software! Get with some Debian-stable, FreeBSD, or NetBSD, and you'll be in much better shape. They actually do some QA on their system.
So, what's the solution, then? Leaving unsolved cases unsolved, because you, personally, don't believe it's the right way to go about investigating things?
In this case, if you'd bothered to read the article, the detective turned to google after the standard means came up empty. Note the dates -- this guy had been missing for eleven years. I've worked in law enforcement....sometimes you don't always find the information you need in police databases. They're old systems, often difficult to use (even for a geek like me). And sharing of data amongst localities isn't always the best. It took years to get the NCIC established so that officers can check for outstanding warrants nationwide. Things like missing persons data isn't as centralized.
Clear Channel (a part owner of XM) will put Rush Limbaugh on XM. He's their one major talk show missing from XM right now.
It'll piss the affiliates off (I work for one, full disclosure here), but it's something they can do to counter.
The thing is, this doesn't happen for another fifteen months. What will happen to Sirius in the meantime? I don't think most of the Stern fans are going to go and pay for service fifteen months out.....Clear Channel can put Limbaugh on XM tomorrow.