Hmmm, Doesn't this feel a bit like they're trying to sell you a OS-less PC? Either to appeal to people buying this, and throwing a pirated copy of Windows on it, or to sell the customer a copy of Windows along with the PC...
These are DIRECTLY tied to the wheel, no coasting action what so ever.
Nope. It is true that many die hard MTB'ers ride Single Speeds, but there's always a freewheel/coasting capability. Imagine trying to clear a tehnical rock section without being able to keep your pedal arms horizontal.
I've been mountain biking for about a year now, and it's, IMO, a really cool sport/hobby. Allow me to list the benefits:
Way to spend ungodly amounts of cash on exotic and geeky parts. (If you are so inclined, you can get started for little.)
Tinkering with mechanic parts. Building your own bike is not hard, and very rewarding.
You get in shape.
You get in high speed, high adrenaline, high risk of pain and humiliation situations.
There's a sub-category for everyone, XC (Cross Country), Down Hill, Trials, Urban, Freeride, you name it. You can do insane 30' drops on 50 lbs downhill rigs, race XC on 20 lbs. hardtails etc.
Also, the folks in alt.mountain-bike are really nice.
This goes along with my plans.
1. Change name ti L. Bob Rife
2. Create cable TV monopoly
3. Start own religion
4. Work on meta-virus
5. Buy aircraft carrier
6. Get residents of 3rd world country to do my bidding!
To the people not getting the above reference, go read Neal Stephenson's "Snow Crash", in were a decommissioned aircraft carrier is the center of "The Raft", a shitload of floating things, well, floating around, with "refus" (refugees), waiting to get close enough to North America to get ashore to start a new life.
I'm from Denmark, I can read the article, so I figured I'd clear up a few things:
An entity, which is called UNI-C, has reached an agreement with Sun Microsystems about distribution of their StarOffice package. Schools, teachers and students will be able to get the software for free if they download it (from a linux server, running on the danish school network known as Sektornet) or for a fee of ~ $1.50 on a CD.
UNI-C is a semigovermental entity, that does networking for the public school system and the universities, hosts the DIX (Danish Internet eXchange) and things like that. Danish law says, that for a public school to accept free software, the software must be of no expense to the state, and its ditribution must be handled by UNI-C.
So, in conclusion, no, every school in Denmark is not switching to Linux. They may switch to StarOffice, on some platform.
Oh yeah, like Okipage's 14i/n, where the 'root' password is the last 6 digits of it's MAC address... which should be a fairly easy thing to figure out on a LAN.
...the guy employed at a german auto-manufacturer (I think it's BMW). His job is to smell the different materials, and make sure they smell "BMW'ish" and don't affect each other to create a bad smell.
He got famous on a german TV-show, where he was able to tell the make, model and year of a dusin cars, just by smelling them (he was blindfolded).
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IIRC what he did was to set up a virtual windows desktop spanning five monitors, and then run Unreal in a window nearly maximized. This means no 3D-acceleration, and a crappy resolution.
He did fiddle with the settings so he could get the view rendered at five times the normal width, though.
It was a pretty cool hack, but it would have been nice with 3D-acceleration in a decent resolution on more than one monitor. I understand this is impossible as of right now.
Yes, we do have a 25% sales tax (or VAT if you like.) Yes, that is a DAMN lot.
I don't have anything official to back this up, but I think that most hi-tech stuff is bought in the country. Things that we go to Germany for is usually booze, wine and beer (half prize), sweets and perfume (small savings.)
I don't know about Sweden, The price level is pretty much the same, but since you get 1 Swedish krone for 0.82 Danish, it can sometimes be a good deal. But then you have the hassle if the thing breaks etc.
Being Danish, I feel I must make a few comments here.
Currently, it's illegal to make a personal copy of a CD. Say, one for the car and one for the living room. I think this also includes MP3's, but the laws are hopelessly outdated. (Actually, it's illegal to make exact digital copies. If you run your CD through a Digital-to-Analog-to-Digital converter, you should technically be OK.)
The new law (in the making) suggests that it should be legal to make digital copies for personal use. Second generation copies (copy-of-a-copy) should not be legal, as a mean to avoid music piracy.
The artists should be reimbursed with funds coming from a new CDR-tax, of appr. $0.50 pr. disc[1]. (Good thing I just stockpiled 100 80 min. Kodaks, heh.;)
Of course, we copy stuff as crazy, so I don't see this being of much practical importance.
On a somewhat related note, this is the country that just ruled that *linking* to MP3's is illegal. Yes, two kids, 16 at the time of the "crime", had been having a competition of who could collect the most MP3's from their homepages. They weren't storing them, just linking to them. Just got a bill for about $15.000. Freedom of speech, anyone?
Bo
[1] I find this somewhat fscked up, as not all CDR's are used to pirate data. Granted, in reality, that's probably the vast majority, but take my friend for instance. He runs a small side-business (linuxpusher.dk) selling homeburned Linux-distros. If the new law comes through, he's going to be sending ~$100 away in taxes each month, for something he doesn't have anything to do with.
Maybe my parents didn't read aloud enough Grimm tales when I was a kid, so I didn't know what it was, but dictionary.com says:
Rumpelstiltskin n : a dwarf in one of the fairy stories of the brothers Grimm; tells a woman he will not hold her to a promise if she can guess his name and when she discovers it he is so furious that he destroys himself
It's probably just me, but for the first many minutes I just sad with a big "What does it do?!"-look on my face.
Apparently, it uses part of the harddrive to buffer changes, which you can choose to ignore, and go back to a previous step. Kinda like a big scale undo function for OS's.
Not sure if it's usable. The review recommends it being used in a lab environment, but labs are already networked, so wouldn'ta global "write-disk-image-from-server-once-a-week" be better? I know that's what my school does. (In the MS Windows lab, that is. I the CS lab, we run dumb Sunray 150 clients against Solaris X-servers.)
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Hmmm, Doesn't this feel a bit like they're trying to sell you a OS-less PC? Either to appeal to people buying this, and throwing a pirated copy of Windows on it, or to sell the customer a copy of Windows along with the PC...
Besides, with our Dell account we basically get the OS for free when we buy PC's.
From where I've just been fired from my student job, it appeared as if we got the Dells for free when we bought the OS...
These are DIRECTLY tied to the wheel, no coasting action what so ever.
Nope. It is true that many die hard MTB'ers ride Single Speeds, but there's always a freewheel/coasting capability. Imagine trying to clear a tehnical rock section without being able to keep your pedal arms horizontal.
- Way to spend ungodly amounts of cash on exotic and geeky parts. (If you are so inclined, you can get started for little.)
- Tinkering with mechanic parts. Building your own bike is not hard, and very rewarding.
- You get in shape.
- You get in high speed, high adrenaline, high risk of pain and humiliation situations.
- There's a sub-category for everyone, XC (Cross Country), Down Hill, Trials, Urban, Freeride, you name it. You can do insane 30' drops on 50 lbs downhill rigs, race XC on 20 lbs. hardtails etc.
Also, the folks in alt.mountain-bike are really nice.This goes along with my plans.
1. Change name ti L. Bob Rife
2. Create cable TV monopoly
3. Start own religion
4. Work on meta-virus
5. Buy aircraft carrier
6. Get residents of 3rd world country to do my bidding!
To the people not getting the above reference, go read Neal Stephenson's "Snow Crash", in were a decommissioned aircraft carrier is the center of "The Raft", a shitload of floating things, well, floating around, with "refus" (refugees), waiting to get close enough to North America to get ashore to start a new life.
...a dramaic improvement over bombing Iraq for oil...
I read somewhere, that in order to balance things out again, the 20th of March is now officially "Steak and Blowjob Day".
Hey, just find all the highmodded posts from the last time this story was on /., and post them again for instant karma... hey, here's my take:
"It's just Mozilla; it seems to cache the entire web during the build process."
Hi,
I'm from Denmark, I can read the article, so I figured I'd clear up a few things:
An entity, which is called UNI-C, has reached an agreement with Sun Microsystems about distribution of their StarOffice package. Schools, teachers and students will be able to get the software for free if they download it (from a linux server, running on the danish school network known as Sektornet) or for a fee of ~ $1.50 on a CD.
UNI-C is a semigovermental entity, that does networking for the public school system and the universities, hosts the DIX (Danish Internet eXchange) and things like that. Danish law says, that for a public school to accept free software, the software must be of no expense to the state, and its ditribution must be handled by UNI-C.
So, in conclusion, no, every school in Denmark is not switching to Linux. They may switch to StarOffice, on some platform.
But hey, it's a step in the right direction...
Oh, and merry x-mas everyone.
Bo
-Female company
-Contact to the world
-Discussions that can go on for more than 2 minutes without differential equations being drawn in.
That's life at engineering school, but I have access to that sweet, sweet 100mbit university network and 24 way Sun E10K's.
Bo
From the page:
>This is the first legal homebrew application!
>Of course you will need a modded Xbox.
>Microsoft, could you please sign this application?
What does this mean? Does an unmodded Xbox contain a list or some other sort of checking mechanism that only allows certain programs to run on it?
Oh yeah, like Okipage's 14i/n, where the 'root' password is the last 6 digits of it's MAC address... which should be a fairly easy thing to figure out on a LAN.
With the helicopter flying into the tunnel... very realistic indeed.
I put up a mirror here (fast connection, hit it as hard as you can...)
And now I got killed off by the lameness filter, what's up with that, anyways?
Bo
here is a page on Mjolnir, the VVLS (Very Very Large Subwoofer)
Bo
If you want to know more about SNMP, check out this PDF.
One could also check out my friend's homepage, where he offers SNMP walks of his badass Olicom Switch. Node 2 is interesting.
Bo
I still don't have the faintest idea what he wants to do, though, but I'd like to get enlightened
I poked around on their site, but I couldn't find any sign of them closing up shop. Anyone got the mentioned e-mail care to post it here?
Though I didn't sign up with them, I found the idea/concept really cool. Too bad to see them go (if that is the case.)
...the guy employed at a german auto-manufacturer (I think it's BMW). His job is to smell the different materials, and make sure they smell "BMW'ish" and don't affect each other to create a bad smell.
He got famous on a german TV-show, where he was able to tell the make, model and year of a dusin cars, just by smelling them (he was blindfolded).
IIRC what he did was to set up a virtual windows desktop spanning five monitors, and then run Unreal in a window nearly maximized. This means no 3D-acceleration, and a crappy resolution.
He did fiddle with the settings so he could get the view rendered at five times the normal width, though.
It was a pretty cool hack, but it would have been nice with 3D-acceleration in a decent resolution on more than one monitor. I understand this is impossible as of right now.
Yes, we do have a 25% sales tax (or VAT if you like.) Yes, that is a DAMN lot.
I don't have anything official to back this up, but I think that most hi-tech stuff is bought in the country. Things that we go to Germany for is usually booze, wine and beer (half prize), sweets and perfume (small savings.)
I don't know about Sweden, The price level is pretty much the same, but since you get 1 Swedish krone for 0.82 Danish, it can sometimes be a good deal. But then you have the hassle if the thing breaks etc.
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Being Danish, I feel I must make a few comments here.
Currently, it's illegal to make a personal copy of a CD. Say, one for the car and one for the living room. I think this also includes MP3's, but the laws are hopelessly outdated. (Actually, it's illegal to make exact digital copies. If you run your CD through a Digital-to-Analog-to-Digital converter, you should technically be OK.)
The new law (in the making) suggests that it should be legal to make digital copies for personal use. Second generation copies (copy-of-a-copy) should not be legal, as a mean to avoid music piracy.
The artists should be reimbursed with funds coming from a new CDR-tax, of appr. $0.50 pr. disc[1]. (Good thing I just stockpiled 100 80 min. Kodaks, heh.
Of course, we copy stuff as crazy, so I don't see this being of much practical importance.
On a somewhat related note, this is the country that just ruled that *linking* to MP3's is illegal. Yes, two kids, 16 at the time of the "crime", had been having a competition of who could collect the most MP3's from their homepages. They weren't storing them, just linking to them. Just got a bill for about $15.000. Freedom of speech, anyone?
Bo
[1] I find this somewhat fscked up, as not all CDR's are used to pirate data. Granted, in reality, that's probably the vast majority, but take my friend for instance. He runs a small side-business (linuxpusher.dk) selling homeburned Linux-distros. If the new law comes through, he's going to be sending ~$100 away in taxes each month, for something he doesn't have anything to do with.
Maybe my parents didn't read aloud enough Grimm tales when I was a kid, so I didn't know what it was, but dictionary.com says:
Rumpelstiltskin n : a dwarf in one of the fairy stories of the brothers Grimm; tells a woman he will not hold her to a promise if she can guess his name and when she discovers it he is so furious that he destroys himself
Here's a nice one, it shows the counter mid-turn, and the "Hellooo Slashdot" sign.
It works for me, but I put up a quick mirror at:
x .htm
http://www.ostenfeld.dk/~bolind/juzt-reboot/einde
It's probably just me, but for the first many minutes I just sad with a big "What does it do?!"-look on my face.
Apparently, it uses part of the harddrive to buffer changes, which you can choose to ignore, and go back to a previous step. Kinda like a big scale undo function for OS's.
Not sure if it's usable. The review recommends it being used in a lab environment, but labs are already networked, so wouldn'ta global "write-disk-image-from-server-once-a-week" be better? I know that's what my school does. (In the MS Windows lab, that is. I the CS lab, we run dumb Sunray 150 clients against Solaris X-servers.)
Bo