> Plug that superb $400 Matrox video card into your cheap-as-shit monitor or even worse, a LCD (even worse color).
If you have a digital-input (DVI) LCD screen, it sees only digital signals. No analog components on the vid card come into play. The analog circuitry in the LCD is all that matters. I haven't used an LCD screen long enough to comment on quality.
I think brute-forcing RC5 is less useful than the SETI program. We don't learn _anything_ by finding the right RC5 key. It doesn't tell us anything about the security of RC5, because we already know the keyrate of currently available crunchers on many different CPUs (thanks to d.net). Statistics tell us everything we might want to know about brute forcing RC5. Actually finishing RC5 gets a small amount of money for d.net, and we all find out what message those clever boys at RSA security hid for us to find. Doing RC5 is about as interesting as watching the hands on a clock.
OTOH, it would be very interesting if SETI turned something up. Unlike RC5, it's not a sure thing. That's what makes it interesting. It's not very likely to find anything any time soon, if ever, but it is worth looking, IMHO.
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I didn't think a fan belt connecting both fans to the same motor would be that expensive. You can get a car for several thousand dollars. You're paying for a lot more than the synchronized moving parts there.
They use DHCP because they don't guarantee that they won't change your IP. They do network upgrades, and I assume they need to change your IP to put you on a different subnet for whatever reason. (business customers get a static IP). You don't have to run a DHCP client, but if you don't, and they change your IP, they'll drop all your packets. BTW, eastlink can provide telephone service over their data network, as well as analog and digital cable, so they're competing with the phone company for local phone service as well as data.
And just what do you think your sims are doing when you tell two of them to "play in bed" on your vibrating heart bed. (in the Livin' Large set.) Sure doesn't look platonic to me;)
The distinction between education and training is critical here. It's why there are universities where you can get a comp. sci. degree and technical colleges where you can learn to program in a specific language, or even just learn all the features of a specific program. A CS degree is not programmer school. There is theory as well as practical stuff.
In a high school setting, giving kids an education is the goal. It's all about learning how to think (and usually what to think) about various subjects, including computers.
Everyone will benefit from having a general idea about what computers are and what they can and can't do, etc. There is little need to learn anything specific about e.g. a word processor other than enough to write an essay and print it or email it to the teacher. If students want to embed graphics in their projects and use fancy fonts, they can.
In Nova Scotia (on the east coast of Canada), cable modem service provided by Eastlink gives you an IP address that is usually static, but can change due to network upgrades, etc. (Mine hasn't changed for almost a year, but before that it changed once a month for a few months.) They use DHCP and give you an IP corresponding to your ethernet HW address. I've been running my mail server through my cable modem for years. DSL around here (from MTT) is behind a ridiculous NAT firewall, so you get a 10.0.0.0 IP address, and your "external" IP address changes every 15 minutes. (They do manage to avoid breaking established TCP connections, though.)
Anyway, cable vs. DSL has nothing to do with the firewall/other annoyance policy at the ISP.
> People are not inclined to listen to viewpoints outside of their own worldview if viewpoints that correspond to it exist. Liberals think the media is too conservative. Conservatives are convinced the media is liberal. Both would rather get news from sources that tell them that their view is correct, and ignore the other side.
It's not about where _I_ would rather get my news, it's that I wish the news other people got was biased toward causes that I support. An example that/.ers are familiar with is Free software and Micros~1. Often, the media neglects to mention that if MS didn't suck so much, those nasty bad guys wouldn't be able to wreak so much havoc with email viruses and worms like Code Red. Proponents of Free Software wish that, in general, a negative impression of MS was instilled in the audience of the news report. Obviously there is a limit, and it isn't sensible to want negative reporting about things that MS has done well, such as finally ditching DOS with winNT.
> And we wonder how people can't see through the obvious (to us) bias on Al-Jazeera?
I heard a recording of a Noam Chomsky lecture in which he described Al Jazeera as being more balanced than the US cable news networks. AJ has had interviews or panel discussions (don't remember which he said it was) with Israeli members of parliament. I don't know whether they gave the Israelis a chance to say anything useful, or got all hostile with them like CNN did with a Palestinian government guy in an interview a couple weeks ago. Given what Chomsky said, I would have to assume that it wasn't too bad.
BTW, I'm a big fan of Chomsky, and am strongly inclined to take his word for things. I don't have the time to research everything myself, so I have to listen to somebody. Chomsky, Michael Parenti, and Michael Moore seem like reliable sources. Their view of how the world should work is one I like, and I guess it all boils down to getting information from from people who share my point of view. Still, part of the reason that I listen to Chomsky is that I think he's reliable, not just that I like what he's saying. I usually get news through the CBC and BBC, with a bit of American media thrown in. Thus, I'm not just getting Noam Chomsk's version of everything!
> I remember I used to think deep linking was okay, but have obviously since changed my mind. If companies deep linked to/., now that/. relies heavily on ads for its revenue, we probably wouldn't have it.:(
I would guess that most of/.'s traffic comes from ordinary readers who start at the front page, or people who follow links to whole stories, rather than individual comments. This being the case, there wouldn't be much decrease in the amount of adds shown.
Other web sites might have a different situation, where most of their traffic comes from deep linking. However, news web sites always seem to have some adds thrown in with their articles, so people aren't avoiding adds by following deep links.
To do this with linux you can switch to another virtual terminal (CTRL+ALT+F2, for instance). If you want an X server, then start one. If you already logged in through XDM, you can still switch to a text console and log in as another user, then run startx --:1. Then switch between your X servers with CTRL+ALT+F7,F8 (or whichever VCs you are using for your X servers.)
I sometimes do this on the family computer. I'll start an X session for myself on VC8, and leave a guest login on VC7 for the rest of the family.
My windows keys are my Alt keys, and my alt keys are my Meta keys, so my left ctrl key is next to an alt key. However, I like to use my capslock key as Ctrl instead, because it's much better placed for a commonly used function like ctrl.
Linux is not hard to learn if you don't already have preconceived notions about things from using Windows. Obviously there are bad GUIs for Linux, since there are hundreds of different window managers. Not all of them can be good...
The main reason Windows is so popular is that it is popular. People in developed countries who have been exposed to computers before usually have some experience with Windows, so it is easier for them to continue using windows than to switch to something else. Thus, people get Windows at home, and the cycle continues.
People who don't already have a head start on knowing Windows probably won't find it much easier than straight-forward Linux systems.
> a 3 disk SCSI raid doesnt cost much at all and gives you the ability to lose a drive and NOT lose data
For a home computer, the thing to do is RAID1 (mirrored) with an old hard drive for/home. Keep your mp3s, movies, and porn on your newest drive (or even on a RAID0). I've got the crap I've downloaded in/var/stuff, where/var is RAID0. The stuff I don't want to lose is on a 1GB/home. If you're used to keeping gobs of stuff in/home, you'll have to start using/var and/or/usr/local/src, or whatever. Software RAID is fine for this, so it works on any old computer. All you need is two IDE cables.
It's used in the Linux kernel, for example:
Linux version 2.4.18 (root@yeti) (gcc version 2.95.4 (Debian prerelease)) #15 Wed Apr 3 02:12:16 AST 2002
hda: 60046560 sectors (30744 MB) w/2048KiB Cache, CHS=29785/32/63
hdc: 25429824 sectors (13020 MB) w/418KiB Cache, CHS=25228/16/63
what happened was that we got gigs of magnetic storage on our desktops. We kept pushing the limits of conventional tech fast enough that alternatives wouldn't make profitable products once they reached the market. The time to market for new techs is longer than for established stuff that we know how to deal with. By the time they figured out something holographic, magnetic tech had already eclipsed it.
Full duplex means no collisions, so you don't have the minimum packet length requirement that the round-trip time between the two most distant points in the LAN is shorter than the time to transmit the minimum sized packet. (You need that so all hosts know about the collision and can start transmitting again without getting in a mess.) If you had gig hubs, you would be limited to maybe 10 meter cables or something? (that kind of ballpark)
Did you mean with XFree86 4.x? XF86 4.x supports X11R6. I won't try to go into more detail, because I'm not an expert and posting wrong info is probably worse than posting nothing. If you actually care, you can check google.
> You mean "I'm petty and I don't like the way he worded that."
There actually is a difference. Package maintainers upload packages to the master debian archive, which is downloaded from there by a hierarchy of mirrors all around the world. It often happens that a mirror doesn't have a new version of a package even if the Packages file says it should.
Getting to your mail or data is sort of nice as a secondary interface,
but with all the security problems involved, and it's general
flakiness/slowness all around in accessing your programs or data over
even a LOCAL network, I've never understood the want.
SSH to your home machine, then use a text-mode email client like mutt. To get at your data, you can use scp. You still have to worry about keyloggers running on the machine you ssh from, but SSH keeps everything else secure.
> If you look at really old windows (hundreds of years), you can apparently see that they've flowed downwards very slightly.
Glass is too viscous to explain that. It would take IIRC some orders of magnitude longer for the glass to flow that much. The reason for the bulge at the bottom is that it occurred while the pane was being made, at high temp, so the glass could flow. You wouldn't get waveforms in your glass unless you heated it before trying to play stuff.
That doesn't change the fact that glass is an amorphous solid, rather than crystaline.
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> Plug that superb $400 Matrox video card into your cheap-as-shit monitor or even worse, a LCD (even worse color).
If you have a digital-input (DVI) LCD screen, it sees only digital signals. No analog components on the vid card come into play. The analog circuitry in the LCD is all that matters. I haven't used an LCD screen long enough to comment on quality.
I think brute-forcing RC5 is less useful than the SETI program. We don't learn _anything_ by finding the right RC5 key. It doesn't tell us anything about the security of RC5, because we already know the keyrate of currently available crunchers on many different CPUs (thanks to d.net). Statistics tell us everything we might want to know about brute forcing RC5. Actually finishing RC5 gets a small amount of money for d.net, and we all find out what message those clever boys at RSA security hid for us to find. Doing RC5 is about as interesting as watching the hands on a clock.
OTOH, it would be very interesting if SETI turned something up. Unlike RC5, it's not a sure thing. That's what makes it interesting. It's not very likely to find anything any time soon, if ever, but it is worth looking, IMHO.
I didn't think a fan belt connecting both fans to the same motor would be that expensive. You can get a car for several thousand dollars. You're paying for a lot more than the synchronized moving parts there.
They use DHCP because they don't guarantee that they won't change your IP. They do network upgrades, and I assume they need to change your IP to put you on a different subnet for whatever reason. (business customers get a static IP). You don't have to run a DHCP client, but if you don't, and they change your IP, they'll drop all your packets. BTW, eastlink can provide telephone service over their data network, as well as analog and digital cable, so they're competing with the phone company for local phone service as well as data.
And just what do you think your sims are doing when you tell two of them to "play in bed" on your vibrating heart bed. (in the Livin' Large set.) Sure doesn't look platonic to me ;)
If he is, we disown him.
The distinction between education and training is critical here. It's why there are universities where you can get a comp. sci. degree and technical colleges where you can learn to program in a specific language, or even just learn all the features of a specific program. A CS degree is not programmer school. There is theory as well as practical stuff.
In a high school setting, giving kids an education is the goal. It's all about learning how to think (and usually what to think) about various subjects, including computers.
Everyone will benefit from having a general idea about what computers are and what they can and can't do, etc. There is little need to learn anything specific about e.g. a word processor other than enough to write an essay and print it or email it to the teacher. If students want to embed graphics in their projects and use fancy fonts, they can.
C60 is not the largest all-carbon molecule. For example, some C240 forms along with other Fullerenes. Go watch some videos about buckyballs.
In Nova Scotia (on the east coast of Canada), cable modem service provided by Eastlink gives you an IP address that is usually static, but can change due to network upgrades, etc. (Mine hasn't changed for almost a year, but before that it changed once a month for a few months.) They use DHCP and give you an IP corresponding to your ethernet HW address. I've been running my mail server through my cable modem for years. DSL around here (from MTT) is behind a ridiculous NAT firewall, so you get a 10.0.0.0 IP address, and your "external" IP address changes every 15 minutes. (They do manage to avoid breaking established TCP connections, though.)
Anyway, cable vs. DSL has nothing to do with the firewall/other annoyance policy at the ISP.
> People are not inclined to listen to viewpoints outside of their own worldview if viewpoints that correspond to it exist. Liberals think the media is too conservative. Conservatives are convinced the media is liberal. Both would rather get news from sources that tell them that their view is correct, and ignore the other side.
/.ers are familiar with is Free software and Micros~1. Often, the media neglects to mention that if MS didn't suck so much, those nasty bad guys wouldn't be able to wreak so much havoc with email viruses and worms like Code Red. Proponents of Free Software wish that, in general, a negative impression of MS was instilled in the audience of the news report. Obviously there is a limit, and it isn't sensible to want negative reporting about things that MS has done well, such as finally ditching DOS with winNT.
It's not about where _I_ would rather get my news, it's that I wish the news other people got was biased toward causes that I support. An example that
> And we wonder how people can't see through the obvious (to us) bias on Al-Jazeera?
I heard a recording of a Noam Chomsky lecture in which he described Al Jazeera as being more balanced than the US cable news networks. AJ has had interviews or panel discussions (don't remember which he said it was) with Israeli members of parliament. I don't know whether they gave the Israelis a chance to say anything useful, or got all hostile with them like CNN did with a Palestinian government guy in an interview a couple weeks ago. Given what Chomsky said, I would have to assume that it wasn't too bad.
BTW, I'm a big fan of Chomsky, and am strongly inclined to take his word for things. I don't have the time to research everything myself, so I have to listen to somebody. Chomsky, Michael Parenti, and Michael Moore seem like reliable sources. Their view of how the world should work is one I like, and I guess it all boils down to getting information from from people who share my point of view. Still, part of the reason that I listen to Chomsky is that I think he's reliable, not just that I like what he's saying. I usually get news through the CBC and BBC, with a bit of American media thrown in. Thus, I'm not just getting Noam Chomsk's version of everything!
> I remember I used to think deep linking was okay, but have obviously since changed my mind. If companies deep linked to /., now that /. relies heavily on ads for its revenue, we probably wouldn't have it. :(
/.'s traffic comes from ordinary readers who start at the front page, or people who follow links to whole stories, rather than individual comments. This being the case, there wouldn't be much decrease in the amount of adds shown.
I would guess that most of
Other web sites might have a different situation, where most of their traffic comes from deep linking. However, news web sites always seem to have some adds thrown in with their articles, so people aren't avoiding adds by following deep links.
To do this with linux you can switch to another virtual terminal (CTRL+ALT+F2, for instance). If you want an X server, then start one. If you already logged in through XDM, you can still switch to a text console and log in as another user, then run startx -- :1. Then switch between your X servers with CTRL+ALT+F7,F8 (or whichever VCs you are using for your X servers.)
I sometimes do this on the family computer. I'll start an X session for myself on VC8, and leave a guest login on VC7 for the rest of the family.
My windows keys are my Alt keys, and my alt keys are my Meta keys, so my left ctrl key is next to an alt key. However, I like to use my capslock key as Ctrl instead, because it's much better placed for a commonly used function like ctrl.
Linux is not hard to learn if you don't already have preconceived notions about things from using Windows. Obviously there are bad GUIs for Linux, since there are hundreds of different window managers. Not all of them can be good...
The main reason Windows is so popular is that it is popular. People in developed countries who have been exposed to computers before usually have some experience with Windows, so it is easier for them to continue using windows than to switch to something else. Thus, people get Windows at home, and the cycle continues.
People who don't already have a head start on knowing Windows probably won't find it much easier than straight-forward Linux systems.
> a 3 disk SCSI raid doesnt cost much at all and gives you the ability to lose a drive and NOT lose data
/home. Keep your mp3s, movies, and porn on your newest drive (or even on a RAID0). I've got the crap I've downloaded in /var/stuff, where /var is RAID0. The stuff I don't want to lose is on a 1GB /home. If you're used to keeping gobs of stuff in /home, you'll have to start using /var and/or /usr/local/src, or whatever. Software RAID is fine for this, so it works on any old computer. All you need is two IDE cables.
For a home computer, the thing to do is RAID1 (mirrored) with an old hard drive for
It's used in the Linux kernel, for example:
Linux version 2.4.18 (root@yeti) (gcc version 2.95.4 (Debian prerelease)) #15 Wed Apr 3 02:12:16 AST 2002
hda: 60046560 sectors (30744 MB) w/2048KiB Cache, CHS=29785/32/63
hdc: 25429824 sectors (13020 MB) w/418KiB Cache, CHS=25228/16/63
Uhh, the north pole data center? Another poster said that good cooling and power supply keep away the click of death...
what happened was that we got gigs of magnetic storage on our desktops. We kept pushing the limits of conventional tech fast enough that alternatives wouldn't make profitable products once they reached the market. The time to market for new techs is longer than for established stuff that we know how to deal with. By the time they figured out something holographic, magnetic tech had already eclipsed it.
See DJB's web page about them. The scheme was designed to ward off SYN-flood DoS attacks, which is pretty much what a /.ing amounts to.
read this and learn how kiB means 1024 bytes, kB means 1000 bytes, etc.
Full duplex means no collisions, so you don't have the minimum packet length requirement that the round-trip time between the two most distant points in the LAN is shorter than the time to transmit the minimum sized packet. (You need that so all hosts know about the collision and can start transmitting again without getting in a mess.) If you had gig hubs, you would be limited to maybe 10 meter cables or something? (that kind of ballpark)
> using X11r4.x
Did you mean with XFree86 4.x? XF86 4.x supports X11R6. I won't try to go into more detail, because I'm not an expert and posting wrong info is probably worse than posting nothing. If you actually care, you can check google.
> You mean "I'm petty and I don't like the way he worded that."
There actually is a difference. Package maintainers upload packages to the master debian archive, which is downloaded from there by a hierarchy of mirrors all around the world. It often happens that a mirror doesn't have a new version of a package even if the Packages file says it should.
SSH to your home machine, then use a text-mode email client like mutt. To get at your data, you can use scp. You still have to worry about keyloggers running on the machine you ssh from, but SSH keeps everything else secure.
> If you look at really old windows (hundreds of years), you can apparently see that they've flowed downwards very slightly.
Glass is too viscous to explain that. It would take IIRC some orders of magnitude longer for the glass to flow that much. The reason for the bulge at the bottom is that it occurred while the pane was being made, at high temp, so the glass could flow. You wouldn't get waveforms in your glass unless you heated it before trying to play stuff.
That doesn't change the fact that glass is an amorphous solid, rather than crystaline.