When I had my new machine with Windows 7, suspend/sleep worked fine. After about 2-3 months and some driver installs suspend could never resume, after sleep, only the black screen came back, i had to press reset. I tried to change settings, to hibernate, nothing helped.
A few more months have passed, and now suspend is working again. Maybe a Windows update helped it?
When heating with an air-conditioner, the efficiency is not too good, but not too bad. 1 kWh electric energy = 5-6 kWh heating energy (equivalent). So there is a ratio of 1:5 to 1:6.
When heating with just electricity, the ratio is 1:1 (1 kWh electic energy = 1 kWh heat equivalent).
It took me some time to understand what BitCoin actually is.
Basically, BitCoin network is a big transaction database. One transaction is: "transfer X amount of BitCoins from account Y to account Z." This 'database', or transaction log is replicated and stored on all participating users' computers. You can be sure a (your) transaction has been recorded, because you can check with many other peers who will verify that it is.
Of course, the inner parts are more complex, and there's a way to generate new BitCoins (but over time you can generate less and less, so it's a finite amount in total).
(I forgot to login before my comment, so i'm posting it again.)
Oh, your comment has probably been written in good faith, but I do have to correct a thing or two... Slovenia (where OOo conf is) is NOT Slovakia. Poland and Georgia was never part of Yugoslavia. Poland (all of it) is part of the European Union, none is part is under Russian jurisdiction. Yugoslavia is now Slovenia, Croatia, Serbia-Montenegro and Bosnia.
This (friday) morning we just had an encounter with a Microsoft techie, in the Q&A session of the keynote conference about migration to OpenOffice.
Of course, he just kept repeating the standard Microsoft ideas, saying the speaker (!!) seems Anti-American, anti-corporate, saying that the Microsoft DOC format (the new one) IS open for everyone, citing some EU decision on that. This Microsoft guy has also agressively offered to "help the speaker get the facts right" for his slides for next time.
Then, in the corridor, talking with him lead of course nowhere, but what else did you expect? He only could repeat the standart MS panel replies to every question raised...
I've seen Second Life mentioned on Slashdot around last summer, and I'm still in game:-)
It might not appeal to all -- it's not exactly a game, more of a virtual place, where you can live your imagination, build, socialize. Don't expect WoW-like quality and content, but you can get and do much more, many things you can imagine, can be scripted to an extent. Or you can make clothes, build houses, cars, etc.
It's a virtual world, and it's getting somewhat similar to the Metaverse (like in Neil Stephenson's Snowcrash novel), though it's way way far yet.
You can try it out free, and stay if you like it, nothing to buy, and also you can live with a one-time payment, if you don't want to spend monthly on it.
I'm glad it's the EU's business now. My country (Hungary) would've given in easily to the big corps and we'd have software patents already. At least now there's a second chance to avoid patents.
It can play just about ANY video file. And it does hell of a job playing! You can switch to fullscreen/back in an instant, even do panning-resizing on the fly (good for viewing 9:16 videos on 3:4 screen), adjust audio/video sync with a key, etc.
Ever tried using windows players? How about playing "bad" avi files, containing no indexes? Media Player, RealOne player all failed on those (well, they do play it, but you can't really seek, or if you can, it's fkkin slow).
Oh, and check that QuickTime player for Windows. It's slow, it's lame, it flickers, you can't resize it or do fullscreen.
I can't say much about mplayer's GUI, because I don't use it, but even that shouldn't be THAT bad. Just compare it to QuickTime or Media Player, which has all that unneccessary crap around the small movie.
This is just another case, where the Freenet Project could help, in the future.
Besides being an anonymous (but authentic) information storage, it is also higly distributed.
In this case, that would mean there would be no "bottleneck", instead, the kernel tar.gz would be distributed, in small blocks.
Too bad it's yet under development, but it's getting better and better.
Delphi 5 Enterprise - New User - $2,499.00
Delphi 5 Professional - New User - $799.00
Delphi 5 Standard - $99.95
and the Linux stuff:
Kylix Server Developer - $1,999.00
Kylix Desktop Developer - $999.00
If you compare the Windows Delphi 5 Pro and the Kylix Desktop Developer, the difference isn't that big. So this might not be that expensive for companies.
Do you want to be able to load GIF's in GIMP? Do you want to be able to view AVI and Quicktime animations? And encrypted PDFs?
The GIF library is not-free, but it can never be! As it uses a patented algorithm. Also, certain CODECs used in AVIs and QTime are proprietary.
PDF's encryption method can hardly be public, as this would break the scheme. (Although in many countries, reverse engineering is allowed, so if there's no patent problem, it might be possible.)
I think this could work... As mentioned, the screen seen while editing is obviously "import", and code never does get exported, as it is abroad all-the-time.
The article's title is a bit misleading, SSH is only a detail in the method, ssl-telnet or any other encryption program could be used.
Look... For example, let's say that people agree that a Linux Conference should be held in Turkey (or anywhere). - Who's going to organize it? - If a few people, then who gets the profit of the event? How does it get distributed? If there is a loss, who's going to pay for it? - If a company, then will he get the profit? Or a part of it?
- If a company wants to give money to a Linux cause in the country, where can he go? What guarantees that his money will be handled properly? How can this company "account" for the money given? (This is important for taxation.)
Okay, these require more than a few people's group with a membership. But an association can do the above mentioned pretty well...
There's absolutely no danger of nuclear contamination. Besides the computers and circuits that control the power plant, there are several layers of physical protection. Even if all the controlling power had been shut down for a reactor, the mechanical devices would shut it down.
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When I had my new machine with Windows 7, suspend/sleep worked fine. After about 2-3 months and some driver installs suspend could never resume, after sleep, only the black screen came back, i had to press reset. I tried to change settings, to hibernate, nothing helped.
A few more months have passed, and now suspend is working again. Maybe a Windows update helped it?
When heating with an air-conditioner, the efficiency is not too good, but not too bad. 1 kWh electric energy = 5-6 kWh heating energy (equivalent). So there is a ratio of 1:5 to 1:6.
When heating with just electricity, the ratio is 1:1 (1 kWh electic energy = 1 kWh heat equivalent).
In the end: nice joke from Microsoft.
It took me some time to understand what BitCoin actually is.
Basically, BitCoin network is a big transaction database.
One transaction is: "transfer X amount of BitCoins from account Y to account Z." This 'database', or transaction log is replicated and stored on all participating users' computers.
You can be sure a (your) transaction has been recorded, because you can check with many other peers who will verify that it is.
Of course, the inner parts are more complex, and there's a way to generate new BitCoins (but over time you can generate less and less, so it's a finite amount in total).
(I forgot to login before my comment, so i'm posting it again.)
Oh, your comment has probably been written in good faith, but I do have to correct a thing or two...
Slovenia (where OOo conf is) is NOT Slovakia.
Poland and Georgia was never part of Yugoslavia. Poland (all of it) is part of the European Union, none is part is under Russian jurisdiction.
Yugoslavia is now Slovenia, Croatia, Serbia-Montenegro and Bosnia.
This (friday) morning we just had an encounter with a Microsoft techie, in the Q&A session of the keynote conference about migration to OpenOffice.
Of course, he just kept repeating the standard Microsoft ideas, saying the speaker (!!) seems Anti-American, anti-corporate, saying that the Microsoft DOC format (the new one) IS open for everyone, citing some EU decision on that. This Microsoft guy has also agressively offered to "help the speaker get the facts right" for his slides for next time.
Then, in the corridor, talking with him lead of course nowhere, but what else did you expect? He only could repeat the standart MS panel replies to every question raised...
Americans with Disabilities Act???
Hello!?!??! This is an European event, an European server! But nonetheless, a transcript would be nice.
I've seen Second Life mentioned on Slashdot around last summer, and I'm still in game :-)
:-)
It might not appeal to all -- it's not exactly a game, more of a virtual place, where you can live your imagination, build, socialize. Don't expect WoW-like quality and content, but you can get and do much more, many things you can imagine, can be scripted to an extent. Or you can make clothes, build houses, cars, etc.
It's a virtual world, and it's getting somewhat similar to the Metaverse (like in Neil Stephenson's Snowcrash novel), though it's way way far yet.
You can try it out free, and stay if you like it, nothing to buy, and also you can live with a one-time payment, if you don't want to spend monthly on it.
Yes... I AM an SL addict
I'm glad it's the EU's business now. My country (Hungary) would've given in easily to the big corps and we'd have software patents already. At least now there's a second chance to avoid patents.
"The iTunes Music Store is not available in your country yet."
This sucks!
I think I'll stay with Kazaa/Gnutella/etc.
USA = 200-300 million people (approx)
Europe = 200-300 million people (approx)
China = more than 1000 million people
So, who is the "rest of the world"?
This is a fact: mplayer just rocks!
It can play just about ANY video file. And it does hell of a job playing! You can switch to fullscreen/back in an instant, even do panning-resizing on the fly (good for viewing 9:16 videos on 3:4 screen), adjust audio/video sync with a key, etc.
Ever tried using windows players? How about playing "bad" avi files, containing no indexes? Media Player, RealOne player all failed on those (well, they do play it, but you can't really seek, or if you can, it's fkkin slow).
Oh, and check that QuickTime player for Windows. It's slow, it's lame, it flickers, you can't resize it or do fullscreen.
I can't say much about mplayer's GUI, because I don't use it, but even that shouldn't be THAT bad. Just compare it to QuickTime or Media Player, which has all that unneccessary crap around the small movie.
Here, in Hungary (Europe), one SMS costs 12-15 cents (price converted to USD). This sum contains the base price + 25% tax (VAT).
The phone companies ARE using SMS's as cash-cows, since there's no way the infrastructure would justify this cost.
This is just another case, where the Freenet Project could help, in the future.
Besides being an anonymous (but authentic) information storage, it is also higly distributed.
In this case, that would mean there would be no "bottleneck", instead, the kernel tar.gz would be distributed, in small blocks.
Too bad it's yet under development, but it's getting better and better.
How about that "other" project, called military, getting $260 billion/year?
Now, that's a real ego project.
The ISS is built by several nations.
If humanity wants to survive, we must get off the Earth.
:-(
And that certainly starts with small steps, like the ISS.
But, hell, we can't even take that small step
And the I answer, as I see it: yes, there is!
People don't want to wait hours for web pages. They don't want to wait for days to download an mp3, a movie, a trailer, etc.
So there's the demand.
"Plus, if I'm not mistaken, Passport would work from any browser."
Try using Mozilla 0.9.4/Linux for registering at passport.com!
When you click on "register", it will say "Unsupported browser, need at least IE 4.0+ or Netscape Navigator 4.08+" and won't let you register.
(translated from Hungarian, although I'd rather see this message in English, it would be easier to copy that here)
From the Borland online shop:
Windows programs:
Delphi 5 Enterprise - New User - $2,499.00
Delphi 5 Professional - New User - $799.00
Delphi 5 Standard - $99.95
and the Linux stuff:
Kylix Server Developer - $1,999.00
Kylix Desktop Developer - $999.00
If you compare the Windows Delphi 5 Pro and the Kylix Desktop Developer, the difference isn't that big. So this might not be that expensive for companies.
Do you want to be able to load GIF's in GIMP?
Do you want to be able to view AVI and Quicktime animations?
And encrypted PDFs?
The GIF library is not-free, but it can never be! As it uses a patented algorithm.
Also, certain CODECs used in AVIs and QTime are proprietary.
PDF's encryption method can hardly be public, as this would break the scheme.
(Although in many countries, reverse engineering is allowed, so if there's no patent problem, it might be possible.)
Does this mean that if a kid buys MS Windows, or any other proprietary program, he/she is not bound by it's EULA?
That would seem strange...
It SHOULD be visible from Europe...
;(
But!
Looking at the current infrared satellite images (http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/pub/s at-images/D2.JPG) it's not looking good...
The sky is way too cloudy... too bad
Maybe England, Spain or France has some chance.
I think this could work...
As mentioned, the screen seen while editing is obviously "import", and code never does get exported, as it is abroad all-the-time.
The article's title is a bit misleading, SSH is only a detail in the method, ssl-telnet or any other encryption program could be used.
Look...
For example, let's say that people agree that a Linux Conference should be held in Turkey (or anywhere).
- Who's going to organize it?
- If a few people, then who gets the profit of the event? How does it get distributed? If there is a loss, who's going to pay for it?
- If a company, then will he get the profit? Or a part of it?
- If a company wants to give money to a Linux cause in the country, where can he go? What guarantees that his money will be handled properly? How can this company "account" for the money given? (This is important for taxation.)
Okay, these require more than a few people's group with a membership. But an association can do the above mentioned pretty well...
There's absolutely no danger of nuclear contamination.
Besides the computers and circuits that control the power plant, there are several layers of physical protection.
Even if all the controlling power had been shut down for a reactor, the mechanical devices would shut it down.