"that CSS is an access control system and that access control is protected under the DMCA"
ah, but that access control system is, in and of itself, a piece of copyrighted software and can thereby be reverse engineered and is governed under fair use.
the problem is this: odometers count from 0 (zero). for the BC to AD switchover, there is no 0 AD (or BCE/ACE if you swing that way) so you count starting with 1 AD.
since 1000 years is the definition of millenium, the next millenium occurs after the passage of 1000 years.
to adjust for having no 0 AD, you have to subtract 1 from the XXXX AD to find out the number of years since the beginning year of 1 AD. thus 2001 - 1 = 2000 years of AD time.
the catholic church just went along w/ people because they are more interested in appealing to people than being "right" with regard to something so inane as a manufactured date system that doesn't account for zero.
personally, years mean nothing to me as long as i'm not dead yet.
or "Choose Your Own Adventure" ? i bet i read 50 of those things. i really sucked though. it's like playing dragon's Lair: you die and die and die until you FINALLY figure out the correct sequence.
the X-rays are released from the accretion disk around a black hole as the matter accelerates into the hole before the matter reaches the point of no return.
turn down the volume and listen to yourself. did you even bother to read the changelog for soundtracker? at least it's updated frequently. but for a full sound package, yes, you NEED a sequencer. you said the words "dance music" and i've heard some pretty amazing stuff concocted w/ this lil mod sequencer.
sure, the built-in wav editor is pretty basic, but it's just supposed to be for quick and dirty stuff.
my opinion (and it's just that: an opinion) is that if you're spending more time in the wav editor than in anything else, then you don't really know what making music is all about.
change "not encouraged by society as a whole" to "not encouraged by mothers and other women" and i'll believe you.
i've never met a male, much less a male geek, who didn't think geek grrls were cool. the stereotype is dad not thinking daughter should do science thingy. the reality is mom not encouraging/influencing enough options in her daughters. when mom is accounting/hr/nurse/teacher person, that's the influence a daughter's going to get.
perhaps the coolness factor would go away if there were more geek grrls, but the respect value would probably be present for the foreseeable future.
why do women want to define themselves by a man's standard? why try to get in on the internet and computer phenomenon? can't they think of something equally cool all by themselves?;)
seriously though, you are defined more by what you say you are not than what you say you are. by saying that they are co-opted out of computing, they legitimize the status quo. they want to stigmatize it, but what do they contribute in return?
what the hell is "women's computing" anyway??!!
C++ for Women? HTML for Women? Cosmo Online? subscribe linux-kernel-for-women
technology itself is genderless. the content you make of it is the responsibility of the author. soooooooooo... why don't they make some useful content instead of bitching?
Steve, will you personally take responsibility for Apple's buggy Open Firmware and pathetic Forth implementation? Because if you would, I'd very much like to bitch-slap you for it.
I don't know how many times Open Firmware locked up on my 6500/225 trying to get the damn thing to boot directly into LinuxPPC. booting MacOS just to bootstrap Linux via BootX is completely unacceptable.
last but not least, can you make Apple release all the hardware specs for every m68k? why on earth should free software developers have to reverse engineer 10 year old hardware just to get the damn SWIM floppy to work??!!
it's only slow because the XFBdev xserver has to be extremely flexible and therefore has NO non-vesa-2.0 optimisations (actually, it may have no optimisation whatsover. may just be making syscalls to the kernel driver for/dev/fb*).
if some linuxPPC ppl would take the time to make really nice xserver modules for XFree86 4.0, it'd be just as fast as the comparable chipset on x86.
i live in the austin, tx area and time warner cable offers a service called 'digital cable'. it's pretty nice: lots of channels, good picture quality, extra features. however, when the signal gets messed up, it's REALLY messed up. also, the compression algorithm they use doesn't work very well for contrasting dark shades. i was watching one show where basically all the dark background colors were smudged together into a black cloud. very ugly.
ditto. i penned them an email regarding the "fair use" clause and that if they were going to such lengths to imply that copying DVDs is illegal then "fair use" at least deserves a mention.
as far as DVDs are concerned, i would really like a backup copy. too much data can be lost with just one scratch.
Well here in the United States, English has been in the grip of the "learning by doing" methodology which has all but wiped out formal learning of grammar beyond the basics in primary and secondary education. Unfortunately (here in Texas anyway), the standardized tests are only interested in basic grammar. I don't remember ever hearing the phrase "accusative case" in all thirteen years of school. I learned more about English grammar in my Latin classes than I ever did in English where they were more concerned about five-paragraph-essays than the ability to speak and write correctly.
Be that as it may, I am not against the "learning by doing" methodology in and of itself. Rather, my concern is that English teachers take so little interest in fact whilst delving so much into the world of fiction.
$0.02USD, -l
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and higher seek times if the data is poorly organized.
i disagree. we use timbuktu and vnc at work and i have to say vnc is the better of the two. they both approach the problem from different angles, but i must say i much prefer vnc.
there's nothing better than kicking someone else off in the middle of a vnc session.:)
if you mean Netscape or IE, then no, they will not run. Wine just loads the win32 binaries as Elf-x86 binaries. it's not an x86 emu.
however, you MIGHT get mozilla to work. or another OSS browser. the deal is, you'd have to get Mozilla to compile against winelib under your AXP. this would make an interesting project if you are a coder.
An interesting corollary to this is that winelib CAN be used on non-x86 platforms. Therefore, if you code as non-x86 specific as possible, then your application should compile on non-x86 archs too. can we say: WordPerfect for Linux/[AXP,PPC,ARM,etc.]?:)
remember that PPC chips are RISC w/ some CISC-ish features and thus have smaller transistor count requirements by default. Since that count is smaller, it is easier to "squeeze" the chips onto a smaller die.
this is my understanding anyway. i am not an engineer. any of those folk care to speak up?
The entire concept of media objectivity is a pointless exercise in wishful thinking. Any person who wishes to share a researched article with others should endeavor to make their bias KNOWN (as Tom has said on numerous occasions, he likes to "root for the underdog" [not a quote from Tom, just paraphrasing]) and with that in mind, present both sides of the issue fairly. Whether the author brings the research to a conclusion or leaves the matter up to the reader is an exercise in knowing what sort of article deserves which ending.
There are enough myths out in the world already. Please don't contribute to another.
well, the compilation died on me too but if you keep re-executing the commandline (make bzImage, or whatever) it'll eventually finish building. i've been running this kernel on a minimal load for several days straight. i'm giving the CFLAGS=-fno-strict-aliasing trick noted above a shot right now. if that's the solution, sounds like their strict-aliasing algorithm has a nasty memory leak in it that makes the compilation crash, but it doesn't seem to generate bad code (well i don't crash on startup anyway.:)
ok, compilation with the new CFLAGS just finished and looks like it worked like a charm. YAY!
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"that CSS is an access control system and that access control is protected under the DMCA"
ah, but that access control system is, in and of itself, a piece of copyrighted software and can thereby be reverse engineered and is governed under fair use.
-l
the problem is this: odometers count from 0 (zero). for the BC to AD switchover, there is no 0 AD (or BCE/ACE if you swing that way) so you count starting with 1 AD.
since 1000 years is the definition of millenium, the next millenium occurs after the passage of 1000 years.
to adjust for having no 0 AD, you have to subtract 1 from the XXXX AD to find out the number of years since the beginning year of 1 AD. thus 2001 - 1 = 2000 years of AD time.
the catholic church just went along w/ people because they are more interested in appealing to people than being "right" with regard to something so inane as a manufactured date system that doesn't account for zero.
personally, years mean nothing to me as long as i'm not dead yet.
-l
or "Choose Your Own Adventure" ? i bet i read 50 of those things. i really sucked though. it's like playing dragon's Lair: you die and die and die until you FINALLY figure out the correct sequence.
-l
the X-rays are released from the accretion disk around a black hole as the matter accelerates into the hole before the matter reaches the point of no return.
-l
too bad those big IDE drives are so SLLLLLOOOOOWWWWW. i lurk on the linux-raid list and they benchmark at the bottom of the list.
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turn down the volume and listen to yourself. did you even bother to read the changelog for soundtracker? at least it's updated frequently. but for a full sound package, yes, you NEED a sequencer. you said the words "dance music" and i've heard some pretty amazing stuff concocted w/ this lil mod sequencer.
sure, the built-in wav editor is pretty basic, but it's just supposed to be for quick and dirty stuff.
my opinion (and it's just that: an opinion) is that if you're spending more time in the wav editor than in anything else, then you don't really know what making music is all about.
-l
what you want is Soundtracker:
http://www.soundtracker.org/
change "not encouraged by society as a whole" to "not encouraged by mothers and other women" and i'll believe you.
i've never met a male, much less a male geek, who didn't think geek grrls were cool. the stereotype is dad not thinking daughter should do science thingy. the reality is mom not encouraging/influencing enough options in her daughters. when mom is accounting/hr/nurse/teacher person, that's the influence a daughter's going to get.
perhaps the coolness factor would go away if there were more geek grrls, but the respect value would probably be present for the foreseeable future.
enough rambling...
-l
why do women want to define themselves by a man's standard? why try to get in on the internet and computer phenomenon? can't they think of something equally cool all by themselves? ;)
seriously though, you are defined more by what you say you are not than what you say you are. by saying that they are co-opted out of computing, they legitimize the status quo. they want to stigmatize it, but what do they contribute in return?
what the hell is "women's computing" anyway??!!
C++ for Women?
HTML for Women?
Cosmo Online?
subscribe linux-kernel-for-women
technology itself is genderless.
the content you make of it is the responsibility of the author.
soooooooooo... why don't they make some useful content instead of bitching?
-l
sure, this is prolly troll-bait, but it's also reality.
XFree86 is cathedral development.
why do they have closed development lists?
why do we only get a paucity of snapshots?
why is there no public cvs server?
don't get me wrong, i'm very happy about the project, but i'd really like to see them open up their doors to the public like Linux, Samba, etc.
$0.02USD,
-l
it's a figure of speech meaning essentially: infinity + 1.
i've seen the expression formulated as "everyone and their [dog|uncle|brother]".
-l
Steve, will you personally take responsibility for Apple's buggy Open Firmware and pathetic Forth implementation? Because if you would, I'd very much like to bitch-slap you for it.
I don't know how many times Open Firmware locked up on my 6500/225 trying to get the damn thing to boot directly into LinuxPPC. booting MacOS just to bootstrap Linux via BootX is completely unacceptable.
last but not least, can you make Apple release all the hardware specs for every m68k? why on earth should free software developers have to reverse engineer 10 year old hardware just to get the damn SWIM floppy to work??!!
/rant
-l
it's only slow because the XFBdev xserver has to be extremely flexible and therefore has NO non-vesa-2.0 optimisations (actually, it may have no optimisation whatsover. may just be making syscalls to the kernel driver for /dev/fb*).
if some linuxPPC ppl would take the time to make really nice xserver modules for XFree86 4.0, it'd be just as fast as the comparable chipset on x86.
kind of like blair witch and last broadcast, ay?
-l
for starters, they can steal the RedHat db and download the latest dell monitor .inf files and convert...
i live in the austin, tx area and time warner cable offers a service called 'digital cable'. it's pretty nice: lots of channels, good picture quality, extra features.
however, when the signal gets messed up, it's REALLY messed up. also, the compression algorithm they use doesn't work very well for contrasting dark shades. i was watching one show where basically all the dark background colors were smudged together into a black cloud. very ugly.
-l
ditto. i penned them an email regarding the "fair use" clause and that if they were going to such lengths to imply that copying DVDs is illegal then "fair use" at least deserves a mention.
as far as DVDs are concerned, i would really like a backup copy. too much data can be lost with just one scratch.
-l
Well here in the United States, English has been in the grip of the "learning by doing" methodology which has all but wiped out formal learning of grammar beyond the basics in primary and secondary education. Unfortunately (here in Texas anyway), the standardized tests are only interested in basic grammar. I don't remember ever hearing the phrase "accusative case" in all thirteen years of school. I learned more about English grammar in my Latin classes than I ever did in English where they were more concerned about five-paragraph-essays than the ability to speak and write correctly.
Be that as it may, I am not against the "learning by doing" methodology in and of itself. Rather, my concern is that English teachers take so little interest in fact whilst delving so much into the world of fiction.
$0.02USD,
-l
and higher seek times if the data is poorly organized.
-l
i disagree. we use timbuktu and vnc at work and i have to say vnc is the better of the two. they both approach the problem from different angles, but i must say i much prefer vnc.
:)
there's nothing better than kicking someone else off in the middle of a vnc session.
-l
if you mean Netscape or IE, then no, they will not run. Wine just loads the win32 binaries as Elf-x86 binaries. it's not an x86 emu.
however, you MIGHT get mozilla to work. or another OSS browser. the deal is, you'd have to get Mozilla to compile against winelib under your AXP. this would make an interesting project if you are a coder.
-l
An interesting corollary to this is that winelib CAN be used on non-x86 platforms. Therefore, if you code as non-x86 specific as possible, then your application should compile on non-x86 archs too. :)
can we say: WordPerfect for Linux/[AXP,PPC,ARM,etc.]?
-l
remember that PPC chips are RISC w/ some CISC-ish features and thus have smaller transistor count requirements by default. Since that count is smaller, it is easier to "squeeze" the chips onto a smaller die.
this is my understanding anyway. i am not an engineer. any of those folk care to speak up?
-l
The entire concept of media objectivity is a pointless exercise in wishful thinking. Any person who wishes to share a researched article with others should endeavor to make their bias KNOWN (as Tom has said on numerous occasions, he likes to "root for the underdog" [not a quote from Tom, just paraphrasing]) and with that in mind, present both sides of the issue fairly. Whether the author brings the research to a conclusion or leaves the matter up to the reader is an exercise in knowing what sort of article deserves which ending.
There are enough myths out in the world already. Please don't contribute to another.
-l
well, the compilation died on me too but if you keep re-executing the commandline (make bzImage, or whatever) it'll eventually finish building. i've been running this kernel on a minimal load for several days straight. i'm giving the CFLAGS=-fno-strict-aliasing trick noted above a shot right now. if that's the solution, sounds like their strict-aliasing algorithm has a nasty memory leak in it that makes the compilation crash, but it doesn't seem to generate bad code (well i don't crash on startup anyway. :)
ok, compilation with the new CFLAGS just finished and looks like it worked like a charm. YAY!
-l