I wonder about the idea of encapsulating GTK and/or Qt toolkit operations into a network protocol... although I wonder... does GNOME already do that with its CORBA architecture? i.e. have GNOME apps running on a remote machine make Bonobo calls to a local GNOME graphics component so the gfx I/O isn't as horrible as it would be with Xlib... 'cause then porting GTK and GNOME over to a lightweight non-X architecture would be easy with the network transparency already inside the toolkits...
haha sorry for the offtopic post but... that line 'Father DJ Busta Nutt' had me paralyzed on my bed laughing so hard... could anyone imagine someone SAYING that during church service? ahhahahaha...
I'd be darned if Malda and co. even have any thoughtful remorse for inventing the moderation system. They might have thought inside the theory that moderation would help posts, but I wonder when they'll understand that moderation is a gestural form of oppression, carving a hierarchy out of a community that values equality of thought. I'd certainly have to be in either a SICK mood or face a touch of guilt in implementing such a system. How cruel people think these days.
Yeah, speaking of outrageous computing; I almost read this article as "64-way" processor... 64-way SMP on desktop, woohoo! Imagine a beowulf cluster of those...;-D
Speaking of thumbnails, does anybody know of any programs (commandline) to generate xvpic files? My intent is to rip through whole directories full of graphics files and generate thumbnails of them...
Sorry, I'll stick with my cozy Linux OS. Comparing the Registry to the Filesystem is dumber than hell; probably a tribute to your ignorance about Linux, actually. "Ease of use" is a red herring. It does provide a time barrier, since people have to learn it, but once someone has learned how to use Linux and understands it properly, the 'ease of use' barrier has been reached.
Given that statement, Windows' ease of use is NO EXCUSE for its instability, difficulty to administrate, and general lack of room.
By lack of room, I mean the fact that to do anything in Windows, you have to search through ungodly amounts of documentation, search through deep menus of the Start menu, or try to use what limited facilities are there for finding files. On Linux, if I forgot what the command was to run the GNOME Control Center, I can "ls --color=yes -C -p/opt/gnome/bin | less -r" and take a look at all the binaries there; and I usually suddenly remember what the command was once I see it. When sitting at a UNIX command line, I know that, even if there isn't much installed on the system, I can always get my kicks writing shell scripts. At least UNIX's command interpreters can take advantage of multitasking.
Heh, err. Dealing with the alpha channel is easy--however, you first have to add the alpha channel. Somewhere in the Image menu should be "Add alpha channel", not sure what submenu. Then you use the Eraser tool (probably other tools you can use to apply transparency) to reduce the alpha channel. Plus take a look at the brush dialog; it lets you set the opaqueness for the brush, plus with Layers, you can use transparency (or even image opaqueness) to blend the layers together.
XMPS uses some code derived from Wine to load the divx32.dll file for Windows -- so the CODEC per se is the Windows codec, just harnessed by XMPS using Wine code. If they could implement more in this fashion... maybe they could support even more video CODECs by writing to the Windows API? (Quicktime with Sorenson? ASF?)
Welp, I just downloaded the CVS code and tried it: -rw-r--r-- 1 spirilis users 5905638 Jun 16 20:27 KMFDM_-_Leid_und_Elend.mp3 -rw-r--r-- 1 spirilis users 6371928 Jun 16 20:52 leidundelend.ogg
The bitrate is variable, and according to XMMS, flutters around 128-140 Kbit/sec for that particular song. The playback (on a P233MMX) takes 99% of my CPU time, but at least does realtime. The code's horribly unoptimized I imagine, and after Xiphophorus handle other issues like audio quality and stuff, I bet they'll optimize it out the ass so it'll be more practical. Converting it from MP3 to Ogg did create a slight reduction of quality, but I kinda expected that.
I know Ogg Vorbis is developed by Xiphophorus, but what is iCast? Is that a company sponsoring Xiph or something?
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Cut the sexism and bias out right now before it cuts you out. Give her a break. I didn't read the article myself, in fact I didn't until I read her post (out of curiosity just to make sure I wouldn't read through the comments uninformed like many others have).
I think part of the size reduction from going to PDF is that PDF does compression (zlib? something like it?) on the contents as part of the file format. (or am I wrong?)
Just FYI, 30/30 would be the same as 20/20. I think the ratio is "Quality of eyesight that patient experiences at 20 feet" == "Quality of eyesight that people with 'perfect vision' experiences at feet" so 20/120 means the patient sees at 20 feet what someone with "perfect" vision experiences at 120 feet. Therefore 20/10 or 20/5 would be more like "superhuman"... although I think some people really do have 20/10 (?)
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Yeah, my first CoCo 1 had a problem with the SAM chip overheating (memory control chip; kinda like the chipset I suppose?), but then I discovered running it with the case off and that nasty silver shielding taken off exposed it to the open air, so it ran without screwing up. What was really wicked was when it did overheat. The machine rarely locked up; instead, random locations of memory would be overwritten by random values. Well, it did lock up sometimes; when a critical ROM BASIC data value was overwritten. It was neat fooling with the computer and then 20 minutes later, watching the screen go slowly berzerk and realize that there were only minutes left until I had to restart it... and lose all my program =(. Opening the case solved that and I was happy. However I fucked the thing up when I started poking at the circuits with a screwdriver, short-circuiting pins on a chip, and eventually I did it to the CPU and it went. Made me SO sad for like a couple weeks until I got a CoCo 2... whee!
Oh man, if it weren't for the CoCo manuals and their little green stick figures and language that a 7-year-old could understand, I wouldn't be interested in computers right now. I had a CoCo 1, 2 and 3, but I didn't get any of them in the 80's; I got my first CoCo 1 at a flea market when I was about 12-13 years old. (I'm 18 now). The very simplistic BASIC programming book had me uber-hooked on programming after I figured it all out. A local guru that I met in Radio Shack helped me understand the basics of the hardware and stuff. Even today one of those CoCo 3's could be a great starting point for a prospective young computer nerd =)
To his surprise, Whitby found a large amount of xenon-129 - an element that forms when the isotope iodine-129 decays. Iodine-129 is radioactive and is not found on Earth.
Next, the researchers wanted to know how old the halite was. Luckily, it's already known how long it takes iodine-129 to decay into xenon-129. Using this information, Whitby and colleagues calculated that the salt crystals - and the water - in the meteorite formed only two million years after the birth of the Solar System 4.57 billion years ago.
They found Xenon-129 in the meteorite, not Iodine-129; but since Iodine-129 decays into Xenon-129 they can figure it out from the Xenon-129 available.
Make a DOOM patch that lets you watch for excessive ICMP packets (in the form of those annoying yellow flying fireballs), and get your little brother in the server room 24/7! He'll have a ball!
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. Justice Department official said on Wednesday the United States would ask the Supreme Court to directly review the Microsoft Corp. (NasdaqNM:MSFT - news) ruling in an effort to reach a ``quick and effective resolution'' of the case.
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remember to use 'start_galeon' instead :-)
I wonder about the idea of encapsulating GTK and/or Qt toolkit operations into a network protocol... although I wonder... does GNOME already do that with its CORBA architecture? i.e. have GNOME apps running on a remote machine make Bonobo calls to a local GNOME graphics component so the gfx I/O isn't as horrible as it would be with Xlib... 'cause then porting GTK and GNOME over to a lightweight non-X architecture would be easy with the network transparency already inside the toolkits...
A friend mentioned Mpcut to me (haven't tried it yet myself): http://minnie.cs.adfa.edu.au/Mpcut/
haha sorry for the offtopic post but... that line 'Father DJ Busta Nutt' had me paralyzed on my bed laughing so hard... could anyone imagine someone SAYING that during church service? ahhahahaha...
excellent post. Thanks for informing us :)
Er, nevermind, I'm ranting again :-)
Yeah, speaking of outrageous computing; I almost read this article as "64-way" processor... 64-way SMP on desktop, woohoo! Imagine a beowulf cluster of those... ;-D
Actually, MicroBerto got the first post on this article. Proof. (~74k JPEG--Lynx snapshot in window maker)
Speaking of thumbnails, does anybody know of any programs (commandline) to generate xvpic files? My intent is to rip through whole directories full of graphics files and generate thumbnails of them...
Given that statement, Windows' ease of use is NO EXCUSE for its instability, difficulty to administrate, and general lack of room.
By lack of room, I mean the fact that to do anything in Windows, you have to search through ungodly amounts of documentation, search through deep menus of the Start menu, or try to use what limited facilities are there for finding files. On Linux, if I forgot what the command was to run the GNOME Control Center, I can "ls --color=yes -C -p /opt/gnome/bin | less -r" and take a look at all the binaries there; and I usually suddenly remember what the command was once I see it. When sitting at a UNIX command line, I know that, even if there isn't much installed on the system, I can always get my kicks writing shell scripts. At least UNIX's command interpreters can take advantage of multitasking.
Heh, err. Dealing with the alpha channel is easy--however, you first have to add the alpha channel. Somewhere in the Image menu should be "Add alpha channel", not sure what submenu. Then you use the Eraser tool (probably other tools you can use to apply transparency) to reduce the alpha channel. Plus take a look at the brush dialog; it lets you set the opaqueness for the brush, plus with Layers, you can use transparency (or even image opaqueness) to blend the layers together.
ftp://ftp.maximumlinux.com/ TerminusDemoLinuxFull.tar.gz to get straight to the file; the article poster got the first 2 links wrong :) And that's http://www.maximumlinux.com/ for the homepage, not http://ftp.maximumlinux.com/ ;-)
XMPS uses some code derived from Wine to load the divx32.dll file for Windows -- so the CODEC per se is the Windows codec, just harnessed by XMPS using Wine code. If they could implement more in this fashion... maybe they could support even more video CODECs by writing to the Windows API? (Quicktime with Sorenson? ASF?)
funnier than Mr. 575's haiku's anyway... (hey 575, how 'bout writing a haiku in response to osm's stories? heh heh heh)
-rw-r--r-- 1 spirilis users 5905638 Jun 16 20:27 KMFDM_-_Leid_und_Elend.mp3
-rw-r--r-- 1 spirilis users 6371928 Jun 16 20:52 leidundelend.ogg
The bitrate is variable, and according to XMMS, flutters around 128-140 Kbit/sec for that particular song. The playback (on a P233MMX) takes 99% of my CPU time, but at least does realtime. The code's horribly unoptimized I imagine, and after Xiphophorus handle other issues like audio quality and stuff, I bet they'll optimize it out the ass so it'll be more practical. Converting it from MP3 to Ogg did create a slight reduction of quality, but I kinda expected that.
I know Ogg Vorbis is developed by Xiphophorus, but what is iCast? Is that a company sponsoring Xiph or something?
Cut the sexism and bias out right now before it cuts you out. Give her a break. I didn't read the article myself, in fact I didn't until I read her post (out of curiosity just to make sure I wouldn't read through the comments uninformed like many others have).
I think part of the size reduction from going to PDF is that PDF does compression (zlib? something like it?) on the contents as part of the file format. (or am I wrong?)
Just FYI, 30/30 would be the same as 20/20. I think the ratio is "Quality of eyesight that patient experiences at 20 feet" == "Quality of eyesight that people with 'perfect vision' experiences at feet" so 20/120 means the patient sees at 20 feet what someone with "perfect" vision experiences at 120 feet. Therefore 20/10 or 20/5 would be more like "superhuman" ... although I think some people really do have 20/10 (?)
OpenNAP - http://opennap.sourceforge.net/ -- someone's already beat ya to it ;) And http://www.napigator.com/list.php for a list of Napster servers, including the main napster servers, and other OpenNAP servers.
Yeah, my first CoCo 1 had a problem with the SAM chip overheating (memory control chip; kinda like the chipset I suppose?), but then I discovered running it with the case off and that nasty silver shielding taken off exposed it to the open air, so it ran without screwing up. What was really wicked was when it did overheat. The machine rarely locked up; instead, random locations of memory would be overwritten by random values. Well, it did lock up sometimes; when a critical ROM BASIC data value was overwritten. It was neat fooling with the computer and then 20 minutes later, watching the screen go slowly berzerk and realize that there were only minutes left until I had to restart it... and lose all my program =(. Opening the case solved that and I was happy. However I fucked the thing up when I started poking at the circuits with a screwdriver, short-circuiting pins on a chip, and eventually I did it to the CPU and it went. Made me SO sad for like a couple weeks until I got a CoCo 2... whee!
Oh man, if it weren't for the CoCo manuals and their little green stick figures and language that a 7-year-old could understand, I wouldn't be interested in computers right now. I had a CoCo 1, 2 and 3, but I didn't get any of them in the 80's; I got my first CoCo 1 at a flea market when I was about 12-13 years old. (I'm 18 now). The very simplistic BASIC programming book had me uber-hooked on programming after I figured it all out. A local guru that I met in Radio Shack helped me understand the basics of the hardware and stuff. Even today one of those CoCo 3's could be a great starting point for a prospective young computer nerd =)
To his surprise, Whitby found a large amount of xenon-129 - an element that forms when the isotope iodine-129 decays. Iodine-129 is radioactive and is not found on Earth.
Next, the researchers wanted to know how old the halite was. Luckily, it's already known how long it takes iodine-129 to decay into xenon-129. Using this information, Whitby and colleagues calculated that the salt crystals - and the water - in the meteorite formed only two million years after the birth of the Solar System 4.57 billion years ago.
They found Xenon-129 in the meteorite, not Iodine-129; but since Iodine-129 decays into Xenon-129 they can figure it out from the Xenon-129 available.
Make a DOOM patch that lets you watch for excessive ICMP packets (in the form of those annoying yellow flying fireballs), and get your little brother in the server room 24/7! He'll have a ball!
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. Justice Department official said on Wednesday the United States would ask the Supreme Court to directly review the Microsoft Corp. (NasdaqNM:MSFT - news) ruling in an effort to reach a ``quick and effective resolution'' of the case.