Transparency is for what exactly? Why would I want things being hard to read?
Skins: a poor substitute for sane defaults and being able to adjust the important things.
Many years ago, Windows 3.1 got this right. You could adjust the thickness of a window border. Today this ability is absent from the Linux desktops. You have to switch themes. Of course, at best only a few nasty-looking themes will have the thickness you want. If you want 10-pixel borders (near-blind with a 30" 2560x1600 display) you're just out of luck.
First you need to kill off nautilus. Lord only knows why anybody would want icons buried underneath all their apps. (or wallpaper for that matter -- do you run apps or do you just stare at the desktop and wank?)
Depending on your system, one of these commands should kill nautilus:
Back then, you had RAM running at the same speed as your CPU. You could access RAM faster than you could multiply. Nobody needed to optimize for cache locality because there wasn't any cache -- no point when RAM is as fast as the CPU.
Back then, you didn't have very much RAM to deal with and (see above) dealing with it was cheap. Screen resolutions were small. If you had 32 kB of video RAM you were happy! CGA didn't even have that much.
Back then, expectations were lower too.
Now, you want to run this on modern hardware. That's cool, as long as you're happy with a 540x400 black-and-white (no grey) display. I bet X really flies doing that. But no, you want 2560x1600 with 32 bits per pixel and you actually want to play a video or at least not watch your windows repaint.
I mean like a gas tank which also contains the oxidizer in very close proximity to the fuel. In other words, like a solid rocket engine or a bomb.
High-density capaciters are damn bad. Damage one little film, and you get an arc. This then damages yet more, and so on, until all of the stored charge has been used to rapidly heat the capaciter.
You can't convert Linux. GPLv2 and GPLv3 both prohibit extra restrictions.
You could create a GPLv3 fork of NetBSD though. That might revive NetBSD. You might just take the kernel though, letting distributions form around it. Debian already supports Hurd and FreeBSD kernels; they could do a NetBSD one as well.
Of course you'd need to find a name other than "NetBSD".
Just try to get a price for buying a plain old VoIP speakerphone.
You can't. You have to go via one of their vendors, who are required to sell you some crappy VoIP service. The excuse is that you get the full Polycomm experience this way. Yeah, I sure do!
The "small room" phone I bought a few years ago, the only analog one I found for sale in a store, suffers from terrible echo problems. I'm just about certain that there is a "suck really bad" setting in the firmware that Polycomm sets if you don't pay at least $500 or more.
The company must be run by asshole marketing executives. Please, don't help them stay in business. Let the fuckers die.
To avoid prostate cancer, you need to ejaculate. Despite the jokes, Catholic priests have 3x the prostate cancer rate of normal men.
Ideally you'd just get married. (the more wives the better, so that you don't have to pester a sick or very pregnant wife) Masturbation is a lame substitute for the real thing.
This works out well for the women too. Childbirth and breastfeeding greatly reduce the risk of breast cancer.
a. Python b. shell scripting and intro to UNIX concepts (awk, sed, sh, etc.) c. 1999 standard C, including "restrict" keyword d. assembly (x86 and a popular embedded chip, including SIMD and OS instructions)
None of those are useless shit that nobody uses outside academia. There is enough variety to avoid students getting weird ideas like "all programming languages use curly braces" or "garbage collection is always included and has no cost". Toward the end of the semester, do a bit of benchmarking of various simple things.
If you could change the keys, no problem. You could add keys for software vendors you trust. Perhaps you could even delete keys of software vendors you don't trust!
Obviously this couldn't just be a NtAddDriverSigningKeyEx() or NtAddDriverSigningKeyA() call that any old spyware app could make. (About the names: if this were UNIX it'd be called sgnky() of course!) The user might do Alt-Ctrl-Del, click a "Driver Keys" button, and so on. It'd need protection against compromised accessibility software and remote desktop software.
Of course, this probably still destroys the market created by bugs. It reminds me of the leaky water supply tunnel to New York City which is illegal to fix because it leaked enough to get the land above the leaks classified as protected wetlands.
Typically this requires more fans. Fans are moving parts, thus likely to fail. Your super-fast computer could crash because of a 13-cent Chinese fan. Dead computers only go fast when you drop them out the window.
Fans are noisy. This causes other people to accelerate your computer at 9.8 m/s/s. They can sneak up on you because you're going deaf from the noise.
If you smoke enough pot, your mind goes. You get rather paranoid and feeble-minded.
I'd like to say: Fine. Your problem. Smoke all you want.
But...
This has a cost to society. Which is better for our economy, a bum or a normal worker? We do not live in isolation. We pay taxes, get roads built, etc. It is in the interest of the general public that you not be a flakey paranoid bum. Sorry.
You could save her, and then a couple years later her drunk boyfriend crosses the highway median and gets her killed. Maybe she goes off the fight in Syria. Who knows? In any case, she's going to die. She might as well get it over with.
People used to face this all the time. Go to an old cemetary some time and look at the ages on the little gravestones. Babies were dying left and right.
It seems that people have trouble with this now. The difference: family size. These days, the ideal is to have 1 boy and maybe 1 girl. That's it. If the boy jumps his bike into the lake and bangs his head on something under the water, you've just lose ALL of your boys and maybe ALL of your children.
It's looking like I'll end up with at least a dozen kids. If I lose a couple, so what? Not that I wouldn't be bothered of course, but it's not like losing ALL of my kids. It's not the same sort of tragedy.
Truth is, people die. The best medicine in the world won't stop that. You can't very well just lock each person in their own protective padded cell.
I know of a coal plant that supplies a soda bottling company with, uh, air pollution.
The "effervescence of sparkling water" used to decaffeinate your coffee would more honestly be called "coal power plant exhaust". Soon it could be "burned garbage".
I've seen fish with "purified wood smoke" on the label, meaning carbon monoxide. It's done for meat too. If you can come up with a nice term for carbon monoxide generated by burning garbage, you have a career in marketing.
When I say "handout", don't think "budget". Think "entitlement". People come to depend on such things. Changing the law would throw many people into bankrupcy. The property tax situation out in California will never be fixed. The problems with Social Security have not been fixed and will not be fixed.
The mere existance of a stupid law is not proof that it would be difficult to remove. A law against cocksucking is easy to repeal. Nobody goes bankrupt if we decide to allow cocksucking. If that hasn't been done, well, the people may just like the law being the way it is.
For a vote to be meaningful, you have to believe that one candidate is less awful than the other. I guess you have a duty to vote if you feel this way. You would probably be deluding yourself.
It's not as if the other party doesn't take campaign contributions.
Lots of contributers automatically give money to the incumbant, no matter what party that may be. Other contributers just give money to both!
The DMCA wasn't a republican thing, but it could have been! The same for various wars; democrats like to start them too. In case anyone thinks Hillary would be tame, please remember Margaret Thatcher -- if anything, the women have more to prove. Vote one gang out, and all you get is the other. It's easy to look like you're not an evil bastard when you're not in office.
Probably the sanest thing is to vote for the guy who is least likely to sign laws that are difficult to undo. It's easy to undo a law that makes cocksucking a felony, but very hard to undo a law that makes a large segment of the population (individuals, car companies, whatever...) depend on some sort of handout. Truth is though... both sides gleefully pass laws that are damn hard to undo. Hardly ever is a law simply removed. Our law is a thick layer of cruft which mainly serves to support the legal profession. Hint: find out who the Trial Lawyer's Association is supporting.
It is a short, in the power to the motor that pumps Freon coolant through the fuel cell. One part of the 3-phase power is shorted. The motor can still run with 2 phases left.
They can indeed replace the thing at the pad. They'd initially thought not, but now they think that it would be possible. The device weighs 200 to 300 pounds. I don't know how they expect to be able to get at it. They'd have to get somebody out on a device (bucket? platform? crane?) in the payload bay, somehow get behind the cargo, remove the fuel cell without dropping any parts, install the new one without dropping any parts...
Southern Arizona is damn good. Perhaps you lose a tad with the latitude, but the air is thin (you could launch from well over 5000 feet) and dry. You'll never get worse than a very rare thunderstorm. The air is so dry that ice won't be much of a concern. You fly over isolated desert, which is decent for recovering little shuttle bits.
The video card backplane has holes in it. The video card heat sink fins are aligned with convection air flow (vertical) and spaced wide for less air resistance. The card itself is chosen to fit within the available cooling.
Putting in some random monster AGP card would cause overheating.
Fans suck in dust. Everything inside the computer gets an icky coating of insulating dust. The fan bearings start to go, making the noise problem grow with time... until one day it goes silent and the computer crashes.
The Cube does not collect dust.
What the Cube really needed was solid-state storage. Few computer problems are as bad as losing your data. Solid-state may lose a file every now and then, but won't get a head crash or bearing failure that wipes out everything you have. Solid-state is also silent; that would eliminate the last noise source when not using the DVD or speakers.
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Transparency is for what exactly? Why would I want things being hard to read?
Skins: a poor substitute for sane defaults and being able to adjust the important things.
Many years ago, Windows 3.1 got this right. You could adjust the thickness of a window border. Today this ability is absent from the Linux desktops. You have to switch themes. Of course, at best only a few nasty-looking themes will have the thickness you want. If you want 10-pixel borders (near-blind with a 30" 2560x1600 display) you're just out of luck.
First you need to kill off nautilus. Lord only knows why anybody
/apps/nautilus/preferences/show_desktop -s false /apps/nautilus/preferences/show_desktop -s false
would want icons buried underneath all their apps. (or wallpaper
for that matter -- do you run apps or do you just stare at the
desktop and wank?)
Depending on your system, one of these commands should kill nautilus:
gconftool -t bool
gconftool2 -t bool
Next, ban all k* and q* apps. You can use the ldd command to
see if an app is using the Qt libraries. Ideally you'd uninstall
the Qt libraries.
Ditch any silly junk sitting in the the taskbar.
Ditch gnome-terminal. Yes, GNOME can use xterm. Plain "xterm".
Back then, you had RAM running at the same speed as your CPU. You could access RAM faster than you could multiply. Nobody needed to optimize for cache locality because there wasn't any cache -- no point when RAM is as fast as the CPU.
Back then, you didn't have very much RAM to deal with and (see above) dealing with it was cheap. Screen resolutions were small. If you had 32 kB of video RAM you were happy! CGA didn't even have that much.
Back then, expectations were lower too.
Now, you want to run this on modern hardware. That's cool, as long as you're happy with a 540x400 black-and-white (no grey) display. I bet X really flies doing that. But no, you want 2560x1600 with 32 bits per pixel and you actually want to play a video or at least not watch your windows repaint.
Well. That's a different kettle of fish entirely.
I mean like a gas tank which also contains the oxidizer in very close proximity to the fuel. In other words, like a solid rocket engine or a bomb.
High-density capaciters are damn bad. Damage one little film, and you get an arc. This then damages yet more, and so on, until all of the stored charge has been used to rapidly heat the capaciter.
You can't convert Linux. GPLv2 and GPLv3 both prohibit extra restrictions.
You could create a GPLv3 fork of NetBSD though. That might revive NetBSD. You might just take the kernel though, letting distributions form around it. Debian already supports Hurd and FreeBSD kernels; they could do a NetBSD one as well.
Of course you'd need to find a name other than "NetBSD".
Ideas: NetOS, NotBSD, Netix, Netrix, Netux, Nettle, WebBSD...
DVD Jon is now living in America??? What, in prison?
We won't be seeing our battery problems solved ever.
High energy density is dangerous. As it is, we're seeing laptop computers vent with flame.
This thing? Gee, it's basically a bomb. Even better? What, you want to rip apart the whole airport?
The Cisco setup was keeping them on Windows 2000 and limiting the patches they could apply. Fuck that!
Your "Now with a migration to Linux for the OS" comment is interesting though. Does Cisco stuff run on that now?
I'm surprised you don't just use your own OS. Isn't Cisco IOS something forked off of BSD ages ago?
Just try to get a price for buying a plain old VoIP speakerphone.
You can't. You have to go via one of their vendors, who are required to sell you some crappy VoIP service. The excuse is that you get the full Polycomm experience this way. Yeah, I sure do!
The "small room" phone I bought a few years ago, the only analog one I found for sale in a store, suffers from terrible echo problems. I'm just about certain that there is a "suck really bad" setting in the firmware that Polycomm sets if you don't pay at least $500 or more.
The company must be run by asshole marketing executives. Please, don't help them stay in business. Let the fuckers die.
The base-10 numbers are costing you bandwidth.
Try base-32 with uppercase and lowercase letters.
That's an 8-to-5 reduction in the size of an ID.
Less data should also speed up the browser.
To avoid prostate cancer, you need to ejaculate. Despite the jokes, Catholic priests have 3x the prostate cancer rate of normal men.
Ideally you'd just get married. (the more wives the better, so that you don't have to pester a sick or very pregnant wife) Masturbation is a lame substitute for the real thing.
This works out well for the women too. Childbirth and breastfeeding greatly reduce the risk of breast cancer.
Breed early, breed often. It's good for you.
Several classes at once:
a. Python
b. shell scripting and intro to UNIX concepts (awk, sed, sh, etc.)
c. 1999 standard C, including "restrict" keyword
d. assembly (x86 and a popular embedded chip, including SIMD and OS instructions)
None of those are useless shit that nobody uses outside academia.
There is enough variety to avoid students getting weird ideas like
"all programming languages use curly braces" or "garbage collection
is always included and has no cost". Toward the end of the semester,
do a bit of benchmarking of various simple things.
If you could change the keys, no problem. You could add keys for software vendors you trust. Perhaps you could even delete keys of software vendors you don't trust!
Obviously this couldn't just be a NtAddDriverSigningKeyEx() or NtAddDriverSigningKeyA() call that any old spyware app could make. (About the names: if this were UNIX it'd be called sgnky() of course!) The user might do Alt-Ctrl-Del, click a "Driver Keys" button, and so on. It'd need protection against compromised accessibility software and remote desktop software.
Of course, this probably still destroys the market created by bugs. It reminds me of the leaky water supply tunnel to New York City which is illegal to fix because it leaked enough to get the land above the leaks classified as protected wetlands.
Typically this requires more fans. Fans are moving parts, thus likely to fail. Your super-fast computer could crash because of a 13-cent Chinese fan. Dead computers only go fast when you drop them out the window.
Fans are noisy. This causes other people to accelerate your computer at 9.8 m/s/s. They can sneak up on you because you're going deaf from the noise.
Oprofile is more for profiling.
d probes/
LTT helps you analyse events as they happen over time.
Dprobes is one possible source of LTT events.
http://dprobes.sourceforge.net/
http://www.opersys.com/LTT/
http://dprobes.sourceforge.net/documentation/man/
That's a complex topic.
If you smoke enough pot, your mind goes. You get rather paranoid and feeble-minded.
I'd like to say: Fine. Your problem. Smoke all you want.
But...
This has a cost to society. Which is better for our economy, a bum or a normal worker? We do not live in isolation. We pay taxes, get roads built, etc. It is in the interest of the general public that you not be a flakey paranoid bum. Sorry.
You could save her, and then a couple years later her drunk boyfriend crosses the highway median and gets her killed. Maybe she goes off the fight in Syria. Who knows? In any case, she's going to die. She might as well get it over with.
People used to face this all the time. Go to an old cemetary some time and look at the ages on the little gravestones. Babies were dying left and right.
It seems that people have trouble with this now. The difference: family size. These days, the ideal is to have 1 boy and maybe 1 girl. That's it. If the boy jumps his bike into the lake and bangs his head on something under the water, you've just lose ALL of your boys and maybe ALL of your children.
It's looking like I'll end up with at least a dozen kids. If I lose a couple, so what? Not that I wouldn't be bothered of course, but it's not like losing ALL of my kids. It's not the same sort of tragedy.
Truth is, people die. The best medicine in the world won't stop that. You can't very well just lock each person in their own protective padded cell.
I know of a coal plant that supplies a soda bottling company with, uh, air pollution.
The "effervescence of sparkling water" used to decaffeinate your coffee would more honestly be called "coal power plant exhaust". Soon it could be "burned garbage".
I've seen fish with "purified wood smoke" on the label, meaning carbon monoxide. It's done for meat too. If you can come up with a nice term for carbon monoxide generated by burning garbage, you have a career in marketing.
When I say "handout", don't think "budget". Think "entitlement". People come to depend on such things. Changing the law would throw many people into bankrupcy. The property tax situation out in California will never be fixed. The problems with Social Security have not been fixed and will not be fixed.
The mere existance of a stupid law is not proof that it would be difficult to remove. A law against cocksucking is easy to repeal. Nobody goes bankrupt if we decide to allow cocksucking. If that hasn't been done, well, the people may just like the law being the way it is.
For a vote to be meaningful, you have to believe that one candidate is less awful than the other. I guess you have a duty to vote if you feel this way. You would probably be deluding yourself.
It's not as if the other party doesn't take campaign contributions.
Lots of contributers automatically give money to the incumbant, no matter what party that may be. Other contributers just give money to both!
The DMCA wasn't a republican thing, but it could have been! The same for various wars; democrats like to start them too. In case anyone thinks Hillary would be tame, please remember Margaret Thatcher -- if anything, the women have more to prove. Vote one gang out, and all you get is the other. It's easy to look like you're not an evil bastard when you're not in office.
Probably the sanest thing is to vote for the guy who is least likely to sign laws that are difficult to undo. It's easy to undo a law that makes cocksucking a felony, but very hard to undo a law that makes a large segment of the population (individuals, car companies, whatever...) depend on some sort of handout. Truth is though... both sides gleefully pass laws that are damn hard to undo. Hardly ever is a law simply removed. Our law is a thick layer of cruft which mainly serves to support the legal profession. Hint: find out who the Trial Lawyer's Association is supporting.
It is a short, in the power to the motor that pumps Freon coolant through the fuel cell. One part of the 3-phase power is shorted. The motor can still run with 2 phases left.
They can indeed replace the thing at the pad. They'd initially thought not, but now they think that it would be possible. The device weighs 200 to 300 pounds. I don't know how they expect to be able to get at it. They'd have to get somebody out on a device (bucket? platform? crane?) in the payload bay, somehow get behind the cargo, remove the fuel cell without dropping any parts, install the new one without dropping any parts...
The obvious is Hawaii.
Southern Arizona is damn good. Perhaps you lose a tad with the latitude, but the air is thin (you could launch from well over 5000 feet) and dry. You'll never get worse than a very rare thunderstorm. The air is so dry that ice won't be much of a concern. You fly over isolated desert, which is decent for recovering little shuttle bits.
Nope. I once messed up the least significant bit of a character. The other 7 bits were fine!
"1" vs. "0"
The Cube is passively cooled.
The video card backplane has holes in it. The video card heat sink fins are aligned with convection air flow (vertical) and spaced wide for less air resistance. The card itself is chosen to fit within the available cooling.
Putting in some random monster AGP card would cause overheating.
You could get a fanless Cube.
Fans suck in dust. Everything inside the computer gets an icky coating of insulating dust. The fan bearings start to go, making the noise problem grow with time... until one day it goes silent and the computer crashes.
The Cube does not collect dust.
What the Cube really needed was solid-state storage. Few computer problems are as bad as losing your data. Solid-state may lose a file every now and then, but won't get a head crash or bearing failure that wipes out everything you have. Solid-state is also silent; that would eliminate the last noise source when not using the DVD or speakers.