Would you like to swing on a star? Carry moonbeams home in a jar? And be better off than you are?
Or would you rather be a mule?
A mule is an animal with long funny ears Kicks up at anything he hears His back is brawny but his brain is weak He's just plain stupid with a stubborn streak And by the way, if you hate to go to school You may grow up to be a mule
Would you like to swing on a star? Carry moonbeams home in a jar? And be better off than you are?
Or would you rather be a pig?
A pig is an animal with dirt on his face His shoes are a terrible disgrace He has no manners when he eats his food He's fat and lazy and extremely rude But if you don't care a feather or a fig You may grow up to be a pig
Would you like to swing on a star? Carry moonbeams home in a jar? And be better off than you are?
Or would you rather be a fish?
A fish won't do anything, but swim in a brook He can't write his name or read a book To fool the people is his only thought And though he's slippery, he still gets caught But then if that sort of life is what you wish You may grow up to be a fish A new kind of jumped-up slippery fish
And all the monkeys aren't in the zoo Every day you meet quite a few So you see it's all up to you You can be better than you are You could be swingin' on a star
I've got a case in my living room that I use to access my mp3 server.
I've replaced all the fans with Silencer fans (can't remember where I purchased them, but they were about 10 bucks a pop). I replaced the power supply fan with a silencer fan, added a second case fan, and changed the processor fan to a silencer fan - all rated at 26 dB, IIRC. I then added Dynamat to the inside of the case using their system. The machine is much quieter now. You can't hear the fans over the gentle gurgle of the fish tank nearby.
For my mp3 server, I picked up 5 120 GB WD 5400 HDs from Frys ($99 a pop a few weeks ago) as well as the 3 fan bay coolers for each drive ($15 bucks a pop). I ran the system without the fans briefly, and the top drive was extremely hot. Using the Antec bay coolers, they are all much cooler to the touch. The machine makes a noticible hum, but it sits tucked away in a cool closet, so noise isn't much of an issue there. I was, however, surprised at how quiet the machine was even with all the bay fans (15 bay fans alone, then a power supply and two processor fans (dual proc system)). Laminar flow reduces noise...
I'm interested in finding more about this particular setup.
My Fiance is a cooking nut, so I want to support this as much as possible, so I won't loose my beer-and-pizza gut from college. I've looked into some linux-based recipe programs but she didn't like any of them.
What sort of set-up do you have?
feel free to email me at m i r a c l e @ spamfree p r o c y o n . c o m
Or what about the fact that observing it changes the past. It was a particle if observed before the slits, a wave afterwords. Thus, when it left the source, it had to be one or the other.
This gets especially freaky on the astronomical scale, when you have to large gravity sources widely separated that bend light back, like slits, from an even further distant light source. If you look for the particles from the distant star, it will come to you in a straight line. If you look for the wave pattern, it goes wide and around both(!?!!) gravity slits and shows up as an interference pattern... Thus, by observing, you made the photon that left the start billions of light years away either be a particle or a wave for all of its existance, though it wouldn't know which one to be unless you looked at it.
Mandrake's urpmi does the same thing as apt-get for RPMS.
You can use RPMs as your packages and use either apt-get or urpmi.
My personal experiences are these: 1) apt-get on a debian box is the reason to use debian. 2) apt-get on Debian is a rock-solid way to add/subtract packages. 3) urpmi with RPMs works ok most of the time. When it doesn't work, it's usually beause it dependencies that urpmi can't find in other rpms. In this respect, Debian still beats the RPM-based distros.
I for one can't wait for a cheap 4 drive raid 5 controller
Under Linux, you're going to spend a fortune for the "RAID 5" on the box. Software RAID under Linux is better than most low-end hardware RAID solutions. Just get the 4 drive IDE controller and tell your Linux box to RAID 5 it.
Or how about $3.50 for _not_ publishing your number in the phone book?
I hate that as well. It's $3.50 a month to be unlisted in the phone and the operator. Luckily, it's still free to tell them what name to list the phone number under. I know many a minor-league athelete that use their first name and their mother's maiden name as their last name. This allows relative anonymity from overzealous fans, as well as allowing their families to locate them in their new city should they get traded...
Personally, I use a completely fictioal name that everyone in my family knows. It's also amusing because it shows up on people's caller-ID as well. Several of my friends are now doing the same thing, using Bart Simpson's imagination as a guide.
You don't need RAID cards to do RAID-5 under linux. Just get a couple of IDE cards, plug in the drives, and make them IDE. IIRC, Linux Software RAID is faster than hardware RAID, and cheaper too. ATA-100 cards are around 30 bucks and you can do A nice RAID5 with 2 cards. I did just that with the 99 dollar 120 GB 5400 RPM WD drives purchased at Frys here in Phoenix.
Re:Hopefully, R3mix.net will pick this up
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Ogg Vorbis 1.0
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· Score: 5, Insightful
Well,
What is the recommendation for OGG to produce CD-Quality sound - regardless of bitrate?
Is it still 256k? Is it 192k? Do you tell the VBR to go between 192 and 320? I'm not familiar with the ins and outs of ogg (yet), but I will convert as soon as I find some (or do some) good analysis between OGG and CD audio.
Hopefully, R3mix.net will pick this up
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Ogg Vorbis 1.0
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· Score: 3, Interesting
I'd love for r3mix.net (or a similar site) to analyze the OGG format so I can be ensured that at x bitrate, it is the same as CD-quality. I currently rip mp3s at 256k, using options that r3mix.net recommends, and I must say I've been very happy. However, now that ogg is out, I will switch all future rips to that format.
An Open Source OS company could offer large chains a branded OS - not necessarily annoying blinking ads, but just the corporate logo-of-choice branding on things like the boot-up screen, the desktop, the title bars of browsers, etc. In return for this branding, if the company could get customer support contracts from the users. This creates a possibility of profitability for the OS company.
Let's take Mandrake, for example, which is very end-user newbie oriented. They have a graphical boot-up screen.
This would provide an opportunity for a large retail chain, say Target, to gain screen space. Instead of the boot-up screen showing all the scary things like "loading SSH [ok]", it could show the Target Logo as well as scroll specials offered on the web-site as the machine boots. These specials could even be downloaded as a back-end process during the previous session so each boot-up would show an updated catalogue of specials, getting the user interested for each boot-up. This service could be offered to the corporation thus generating revenue from Target for keeping the backend of such a system running.
To continue the branding, have Target appear in the title-bar and make it the home-page of the default browser - Mozilla on the O.S. Once again, the OS company could bill Target for the maintenance of the Linux-specific area of the home-page - so that it corresponds with specials seen during the boot-up process.
Any other ideas?
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Doesn't the KDE project have some learning-games for children?
I seem to recall them having those for a couple of languages. Anyone know more on this?
Would you like to swing on a star?
Carry moonbeams home in a jar?
And be better off than you are?
Or would you rather be a mule?
A mule is an animal with long funny ears
Kicks up at anything he hears
His back is brawny but his brain is weak
He's just plain stupid with a stubborn streak
And by the way, if you hate to go to school
You may grow up to be a mule
Would you like to swing on a star?
Carry moonbeams home in a jar?
And be better off than you are?
Or would you rather be a pig?
A pig is an animal with dirt on his face
His shoes are a terrible disgrace
He has no manners when he eats his food
He's fat and lazy and extremely rude
But if you don't care a feather or a fig
You may grow up to be a pig
Would you like to swing on a star?
Carry moonbeams home in a jar?
And be better off than you are?
Or would you rather be a fish?
A fish won't do anything, but swim in a brook
He can't write his name or read a book
To fool the people is his only thought
And though he's slippery, he still gets caught
But then if that sort of life is what you wish
You may grow up to be a fish
A new kind of jumped-up slippery fish
And all the monkeys aren't in the zoo
Every day you meet quite a few
So you see it's all up to you
You can be better than you are
You could be swingin' on a star
Man, I loved that movie.
I recently picked up a copy of CPU (Computer Power User) at the airport having done lots of recent travel and exhausting my normal magazines.
I was impressed. It was a balanced mag between hardware, software, Linux, Windows, and OSX.
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I've got a case in my living room that I use to access my mp3 server.
I've replaced all the fans with Silencer fans (can't remember where I purchased them, but they were about 10 bucks a pop). I replaced the power supply fan with a silencer fan, added a second case fan, and changed the processor fan to a silencer fan - all rated at 26 dB, IIRC. I then added Dynamat to the inside of the case using their system. The machine is much quieter now. You can't hear the fans over the gentle gurgle of the fish tank nearby.
For my mp3 server, I picked up 5 120 GB WD 5400 HDs from Frys ($99 a pop a few weeks ago) as well as the 3 fan bay coolers for each drive ($15 bucks a pop). I ran the system without the fans briefly, and the top drive was extremely hot. Using the Antec bay coolers, they are all much cooler to the touch. The machine makes a noticible hum, but it sits tucked away in a cool closet, so noise isn't much of an issue there. I was, however, surprised at how quiet the machine was even with all the bay fans (15 bay fans alone, then a power supply and two processor fans (dual proc system)). Laminar flow reduces noise...
I have an email address that is currently based in California.
This doesn't seem to be a class-action suit, so who gets the cut?
Linux
VM Ware
Then have as many virtual Windows sessions as you like, crap be-gone.
Or...
Linux
Crossweavers
Or...
Linux
Real Media on a temporary account.
Or...
Wait, you don't have options in the Winders werld...
Will be the FBI tail who will interview the librarians at every stop and obtain full records of what everyone read.
Perhaps the Supreme Court should look at that as well...
excellent Clerk's reference.
I'm interested in finding more about this particular setup.
My Fiance is a cooking nut, so I want to support this as much as possible, so I won't loose my beer-and-pizza gut from college. I've looked into some linux-based recipe programs but she didn't like any of them.
What sort of set-up do you have?
feel free to email me at m i r a c l e @ spamfree p r o c y o n . c o m
If the outer shell of the Pentagon was completed.
I know they set an ambitious date to have the outer corridor fixed by today. Did they make it?
How are you supposed to back up your data with a drive that big?
Buy another drive to back it up onto.
Seriously, HDs are cheap enough now that if you want a good, quick, randomly accessible backup of your data, just duplicate the data on another HD.
Just admit it: Einstein was right, God doesn't play dice.
Yeah, he's more of a Blackjack guy.
Or what about the fact that observing it changes the past. It was a particle if observed before the slits, a wave afterwords. Thus, when it left the source, it had to be one or the other.
This gets especially freaky on the astronomical scale, when you have to large gravity sources widely separated that bend light back, like slits, from an even further distant light source. If you look for the particles from the distant star, it will come to you in a straight line. If you look for the wave pattern, it goes wide and around both(!?!!) gravity slits and shows up as an interference pattern... Thus, by observing, you made the photon that left the start billions of light years away either be a particle or a wave for all of its existance, though it wouldn't know which one to be unless you looked at it.
Freaky.
Is the bug the fact that bugzilla won't let you go to pages that are directly linked from Slashdot?
Mp3 encoding, and 3D Rendering is faster on the AMD, WHEN they use AMD optimizations, or same rating Intel without Intel optimzations.
MP3 encoding? That's _SO_ 1990s. Where are the oggenc performance numbers?
Apt-get has been ported to RPMs.
Mandrake's urpmi does the same thing as apt-get for RPMS.
You can use RPMs as your packages and use either apt-get or urpmi.
My personal experiences are these:
1) apt-get on a debian box is the reason to use debian.
2) apt-get on Debian is a rock-solid way to add/subtract packages.
3) urpmi with RPMs works ok most of the time. When it doesn't work, it's usually beause it dependencies that urpmi can't find in other rpms. In this respect, Debian still beats the RPM-based distros.
I for one can't wait for a cheap 4 drive raid 5 controller
Under Linux, you're going to spend a fortune for the "RAID 5" on the box. Software RAID under Linux is better than most low-end hardware RAID solutions. Just get the 4 drive IDE controller and tell your Linux box to RAID 5 it.
Or how about $3.50 for _not_ publishing your number in the phone book?
I hate that as well. It's $3.50 a month to be unlisted in the phone and the operator. Luckily, it's still free to tell them what name to list the phone number under. I know many a minor-league athelete that use their first name and their mother's maiden name as their last name. This allows relative anonymity from overzealous fans, as well as allowing their families to locate them in their new city should they get traded...
Personally, I use a completely fictioal name that everyone in my family knows. It's also amusing because it shows up on people's caller-ID as well. Several of my friends are now doing the same thing, using Bart Simpson's imagination as a guide.
You don't need RAID cards to do RAID-5 under linux. Just get a couple of IDE cards, plug in the drives, and make them IDE. IIRC, Linux Software RAID is faster than hardware RAID, and cheaper too. ATA-100 cards are around 30 bucks and you can do A nice RAID5 with 2 cards. I did just that with the 99 dollar 120 GB 5400 RPM WD drives purchased at Frys here in Phoenix.
Well,
What is the recommendation for OGG to produce CD-Quality sound - regardless of bitrate?
Is it still 256k? Is it 192k? Do you tell the VBR to go between 192 and 320? I'm not familiar with the ins and outs of ogg (yet), but I will convert as soon as I find some (or do some) good analysis between OGG and CD audio.
I'd love for r3mix.net (or a similar site) to analyze the OGG format so I can be ensured that at x bitrate, it is the same as CD-quality. I currently rip mp3s at 256k, using options that r3mix.net recommends, and I must say I've been very happy. However, now that ogg is out, I will switch all future rips to that format.
Anyone know of any good links?
We've been moving toward more rounded shapes for a couple decades now.
Really? The SUVs sure seem boxy to me.
This, by far, is the funniest thing I've read on Slashdot in ages.
I've mentioned it before, and I'll do it again.
Branding an Open Source OS will probably work.
I've seen AOL clients branded by Walmart[1].
An Open Source OS company could offer large chains a branded OS - not necessarily annoying blinking ads, but just the corporate logo-of-choice branding on things like the boot-up screen, the desktop, the title bars of browsers, etc. In return for this branding, if the company could get customer support contracts from the users. This creates a possibility of profitability for the OS company.
Let's take Mandrake, for example, which is very end-user newbie oriented. They have a graphical boot-up screen.
This would provide an opportunity for a large retail chain, say Target, to gain screen space. Instead of the boot-up screen showing all the scary things like "loading SSH [ok]", it could show the Target Logo as well as scroll specials offered on the web-site as the machine boots. These specials could even be downloaded as a back-end process during the previous session so each boot-up would show an updated catalogue of specials, getting the user interested for each boot-up. This service could be offered to the corporation thus generating revenue from Target for keeping the backend of such a system running.
To continue the branding, have Target appear in the title-bar and make it the home-page of the default browser - Mozilla on the O.S. Once again, the OS company could bill Target for the maintenance of the Linux-specific area of the home-page - so that it corresponds with specials seen during the boot-up process.
Any other ideas?
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