yeah, i use LaTeX for my papers for school. it is a pain in the ass to get it set up just right the first time (1in margins, double spaced, etc.) but once you do get it set up, you can use it as a template. for the ambitious you can do a.sty.
it's amazing how much text you can keep onscreen in one maximized xterm running vim.:)
which is nice until the government organised collection of certain firearms from citizens awhile back which resulted in... big surprise, a crime spree.
i wish i had a link to the article i read about it. i wanna say it was a BBC blurb, but i'm not sure.
I can't believe no one has mentioned the Pinkerton Detective Agency and Weezer debacle. More information here.
Essentially, Pinkerton sued Weezer and Geffen Records over the title of their album Pinkerton as trademark infringement. Weezer won the case, but the fact that something so obviously non-detective-agency-related as their album (Pinkerton refers to a character in the Pucini opera Madame Butterfly) makes these guys look pretty bad... not to mention the judge who had the gall to issue a preliminary injunction.
i believe it's related to a glibc2 bug and their decision to forego implementing a workaround.
what helps me the most is: 1) turn off java and java script, 2) try not to open new windows and then close them again. just open however many you use on different desktops and don't close any. the less you close, the higher the probability that it will survive. 3) don't use a wrapper script. execute the netscape binary directly.
for now. some work on replacing CDDA have much higher sampling rates. once the rate is high enough that you really REALLY can't tell (obviously Sony (or whoever) invented CDDA didn't do much tripping with the headphones on...) then you should maintain much more of the waveform like you get with a fresh-out-of-the-box LP. on the other hand, i'll take a few pops or skips on an LP any day before a skipping CD.
Not just re-running the Muppet Show, but giving it a decent time slot. i don't care WHAT channel it's on, but it can't be in the middle of the day or i can't watch it. grrr.
i know for one thing, the 2.2 kernel is now including the new AND the old tulip drivers since there's a bug affecting different cards for each version. i really hope that gets fixed before 2.4...
i liked both: 1) southpark because it is ridiculously offensive that it's funny. although, other than Uncle Fucker, i thought the music kind of sucked... YMMV
2) starship troopers was cool because of the ridiculous space soap opera feel. bunch of mindless chumps in the future volunteer for military service against alien attackers that we probably provoked in the first place (like Ender's Game). if you don't see the intentional absurdity in the choices of lousy actors for such a brainwashed roles, you're missing out.
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then ask Linus, dude. why do you think i provided the kernel traffic link?
multithreading is a double-edged sword. it's easier to understand conceptually, but there's a reason why torvalds is against it in his kernel: cache misses. when you have several threads competing for the same cache resource, you are going to have cache misses MUCH more often because the kernel can't arrange things nearly as well as in the case of a single thread. even in the case of SMP, most low- to mid-range SMP boxen have a singular cache to share, so even though the threads could run nicely on separate CPUs, the cycles lost in cache misses would far outweigh the benefit of having separate threads on separate CPUs.
it's nice that you'll at least have the potential to fill PCI, though. hell, 100Mbits/s on your average box won't saturate an ISA slot (just bought an ISA 100baseTX for an old p75 the other day) since it only works out to 12.5MBytes/s full potential. the only real purpose of putting one on PCI is it gets the data off the bus more quickly than ISA, eating less cycles. now, if they'd just make an AGP network card for my file server... bwahahahahahaha...
you can blame the fscking WIPO treaty for the DMCA. we would be in violation of an international treaty if DMCA were not enacted into law. Seattle was right. More than they even knew...
interestingly though, CSS is ITSELF a bit of copyrighted software thereby subject to fair use and reverse engineering. or, if you like, take the fact that its encryption algorithm might be patented (i don't believe it is...). if it is not, it should enjoy no patent-ish protection under the law.
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also, see this Debian developer's short summary of his dealings with IBM: http://www.debian.org/News/w eekly/current/issue/mail#2
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Also, some things put off for 2.6 will help tremendously:
What I would like to see from the BSD community:
I'm sure I've missed lots of things... corrections are obviously welcome.
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yeah, i use LaTeX for my papers for school. it is a pain in the ass to get it set up just right the first time (1in margins, double spaced, etc.) but once you do get it set up, you can use it as a template. for the ambitious you can do a .sty.
:)
it's amazing how much text you can keep onscreen in one maximized xterm running vim.
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over 20 hops from me. wish exodus could get some better connections.
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The secret message is:
Buy more Ovaltine
god, that's the funniest thing i've read all day. i just love starship troopers. :)
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which is nice until the government organised collection of certain firearms from citizens awhile back which resulted in... big surprise, a crime spree.
i wish i had a link to the article i read about it. i wanna say it was a BBC blurb, but i'm not sure.
Essentially, Pinkerton sued Weezer and Geffen Records over the title of their album Pinkerton as trademark infringement. Weezer won the case, but the fact that something so obviously non-detective-agency-related as their album (Pinkerton refers to a character in the Pucini opera Madame Butterfly) makes these guys look pretty bad... not to mention the judge who had the gall to issue a preliminary injunction.
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Anonymous, my ASS. i submitted a similary article when the FIRST story on this came out. jesus h. kriste.
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(ok, it's been a long day)
i believe it's related to a glibc2 bug and their decision to forego implementing a workaround.
what helps me the most is: 1) turn off java and java script, 2) try not to open new windows and then close them again. just open however many you use on different desktops and don't close any. the less you close, the higher the probability that it will survive. 3) don't use a wrapper script. execute the netscape binary directly.
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this may be a troll, but it still made me laugh.
thanks.
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for now.
some work on replacing CDDA have much higher sampling rates. once the rate is high enough that you really REALLY can't tell (obviously Sony (or whoever) invented CDDA didn't do much tripping with the headphones on...) then you should maintain much more of the waveform like you get with a fresh-out-of-the-box LP.
on the other hand, i'll take a few pops or skips on an LP any day before a skipping CD.
$0.02USD,
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now THAT's funny.
cheers,
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Drunken Barn Dance Distribution
nuff said.
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Not just re-running the Muppet Show, but giving it a decent time slot. i don't care WHAT channel it's on, but it can't be in the middle of the day or i can't watch it. grrr.
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i know for one thing, the 2.2 kernel is now including the new AND the old tulip drivers since there's a bug affecting different cards for each version. i really hope that gets fixed before 2.4...
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"Luke Skywalker" ay? like 2 Live Crew, perhaps?
how amusing.
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trolling for jesus.
you want i should make you a plaque?
"Evangelista de Anno"
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i liked both:
1) southpark because it is ridiculously offensive that it's funny. although, other than Uncle Fucker, i thought the music kind of sucked... YMMV
2) starship troopers was cool because of the ridiculous space soap opera feel. bunch of mindless chumps in the future volunteer for military service against alien attackers that we probably provoked in the first place (like Ender's Game). if you don't see the intentional absurdity in the choices of lousy actors for such a brainwashed roles, you're missing out.
$0.02,
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IANSNE (I Am Neither Siskel Nor Ebert)
then ask Linus, dude. why do you think i provided the kernel traffic link?
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multithreading is a double-edged sword. it's easier to understand conceptually, but there's a reason why torvalds is against it in his kernel: cache misses. when you have several threads competing for the same cache resource, you are going to have cache misses MUCH more often because the kernel can't arrange things nearly as well as in the case of a single thread. even in the case of SMP, most low- to mid-range SMP boxen have a singular cache to share, so even though the threads could run nicely on separate CPUs, the cycles lost in cache misses would far outweigh the benefit of having separate threads on separate CPUs.
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kernel traffic reader
http://kt.linuxcare.com/
it's nice that you'll at least have the potential to fill PCI, though. hell, 100Mbits/s on your average box won't saturate an ISA slot (just bought an ISA 100baseTX for an old p75 the other day) since it only works out to 12.5MBytes/s full potential. the only real purpose of putting one on PCI is it gets the data off the bus more quickly than ISA, eating less cycles.
now, if they'd just make an AGP network card for my file server... bwahahahahahaha...
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you can blame the fscking WIPO treaty for the DMCA. we would be in violation of an international treaty if DMCA were not enacted into law. Seattle was right. More than they even knew...
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that's how it OUGHT to be, my friend, but alas the US is not so much of a free country as one would think...
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interestingly though, CSS is ITSELF a bit of copyrighted software thereby subject to fair use and reverse engineering. or, if you like, take the fact that its encryption algorithm might be patented (i don't believe it is...). if it is not, it should enjoy no patent-ish protection under the law.
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