One could argue that speed limits, gun registration, and alcohol restrictions have more to do with public safety concerns than digital music copyright violations... I don't see anyone harmed by a pirated Charlie Pride CD (any more than a regular one would warp someone's psyche).
Well, the price premium for 512MB DIMMS is a little sharp, but for the 256MB modules, the premium is minimal... and I'm one of those crazy guys who actually believes in ECC memory, too (after tracking some statistics... it is amazing what a noisy supply can do).
(for PC2100 - heck, these are so cheap now anyway)
256MB - $27 plain / $40 reg&ECC
512MB - $87 plain / $111 reg&ECC
Thanks for the link - I had read some things before about the prelinker at http://www.research.att.com/~leonb/objprelink/ but I wasn't aware it was being used for 2.2.x...
KDE 2.2.1 seems quite a bit quicker than 2.1.x on my testbed (the old K6-2/500MHz, 128MB, 4MB S3 ViRGe/DX), and no noticable swapping going on. I haven't checked the exact memory stats, but it does seem more responsive.
8.0 wasn't the greatest, but I've been running 8.1-rc1 for close to a week now, and I was quite impressed at the improvement. I also had install problems with 8.0, but the betas for 8.1 and the rc1 were much better. I've been a linux user since the SLS days, and have been running mostly Slackware and a little bit of Mandrake on the side... The machine I have 8.1-rc1 on is a 500MHz K6-2 with 128MB and a (blazing fast) 4MB S3-ViRGe/DX (ouch)... X runs well, swap isn't used, and the standard network tools are installed from clicking on the "Network Client" selection in the dummy version install.
It may not be everyone's favorite, but it is gaining quickly in my mind.
Yeah, one of the things that AMD could have easily done (though it would have cost a few pennies more per chip) is add an integrated heat spreader (there is one on the K6-2 and I've seen them on plenty of other chips). Not only would it (somewhat) help the thermal problem (though not enough that you could let your heatsink fall off completely), but it would help prevent people from cracking the die if they used the wrong heatsink or were just not careful adding/removing it. Like you mentioned, a lot of heat from a small area can be a Bad Thing(tm), so why not spread it around a little bit?
Which is great... everyone I know who has a Mac uses a multi-button mouse (3 or 4, usually)... but why have they continued shipping increasingly outdated and less useful equipment, when most people will just replace it immediately... it was one thing on the old lunchboxes, but there is no reason they shouldn't have been shipping 2/3 button mice for the last several years.
Well, for me, in X w/KDE (on a PC and/or RS/6000, not a Mac)
Left button - use to select text or click on function
Middle button - paste
Right button - context menu, etc
ALT + Left button - Move window
ALT + Middle Button - Resize window
ALT + Right Button - raise/lower (saves the trouble of a click autoraising a window when I don't want it raised, just active. Also quicker to lower it without having to find a border or title bar)
Also, for any CAD programs, one shouldn't be bothered with extra key combinations when buttons are available... two buttons are a minimum for many apps... three makes things so much easier (including web browsing).
What is the obsession with pressing keys to do normal mouse function, anyway?:)
Of course, I use a portable CD player, headphone amp, and a nice set of headphones... being on an AIX workstation isn't the ideal mp3 setup from a soundcard standpoint (I do so love that little tinfoil speaker in the front:P )
The PIM with Email is really company dependant (as anyone in a Notes shop will tell you). For home use (where I don't need/use any integrated cal/mail app), I am still using Eudora Pro (and coaxing KMail along).
I really am impressed with Mozilla recently... the latest (.9.4) is working quite reliably for me now on a much wider variety of sites (even with shockwave!).
If you look at Madrake 8.1 (I have RC1 running on my test box right now from the default install), the setup/install is much improved - no intervention required for X setup... all it asks you is the res and color depth you want to run at (they provide decent defaults). Once running, the controls provided allow res/color switches as easily as windows (though there is a disconcerting pause while switching)... X could use a lot of things (from setup to complete re-architecting), but if the distro installers get the installs done properly and provide good config utils, it really helps things along nicely).
I'll agree that upgrading sets of packages isn't always as easy as we'd like... the Mandrake Update tools are nice (I'm sure Ximian has something, but I haven't looked...), and are quite easy to use... auto select update server (granted not always the freshest mirror), lists the packages - user selects, dependencies are (usually) caught, and a while later things are humming. Heck, I updated the kernel that way (I didn't have a lot of faith that would work) and it actually came back up fine. There are distros that focus towards the experienced, power users, and there are those that really do make things amazingly easy for newbies (without sacrificing too much).
Speaking of automotive/sports drinks (and maybe synthetic proteins)... the intro video to Command & Conquer (where it pretends to be flipping through channels) has at one point a guy on a skateboard drinking from what looks amazingly like a quart of motor oil... Maybe this story is the herald for that new drink - "Mobilade"
IIRC, you could select any of the install points (Stars next to step names) on the left side of the screen and skip forwards and backwards, so once you reached the 'Configure X' stage, you could mouse over to the next one... not as great as a "please don't put that on my box", but it should work (it worked in previous versions).
You can't get anything less than Medium-well at Applebees (more real-foodesque than Mc.D, JITB, etc.)... and I'm a medium-rare->rare kind of guy, too (though more on the medium rare section when not at home).
I'm definitely against the idea of another virus/worm, but if the anti-worm resided on a server and only activated in response to a request from an infected server (the reply to the infected server caused the cleanup and patch, plus installed the anti-worm)... it couldn't propogate without provaction, and would slowly eliminate the infected machines. Bandwidth wouldn't go up, since the anti-worm isn't active, only reactive (and only makes one request per attack, which should then prevent further attacks by the attacking box).
Or they could have just posted the announcement in the Science and Apache sections. Many less people, and the S/Nr is much higher. You could get a lot of helpful work done, with less system stress and less pre-paste posting...
Yeah, there are similar issues with some Adobe products (Pagemaker for one). The C:\ and winnt\ dirs had to be world writeable, though no files were ever created there... even if the temp dir and app were on a different partition... smart.
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One could argue that speed limits, gun registration, and alcohol restrictions have more to do with public safety concerns than digital music copyright violations... I don't see anyone harmed by a pirated Charlie Pride CD (any more than a regular one would warp someone's psyche).
Well, the price premium for 512MB DIMMS is a little sharp, but for the 256MB modules, the premium is minimal... and I'm one of those crazy guys who actually believes in ECC memory, too (after tracking some statistics... it is amazing what a noisy supply can do).
(for PC2100 - heck, these are so cheap now anyway)
256MB - $27 plain / $40 reg&ECC
512MB - $87 plain / $111 reg&ECC
Thanks for the link - I had read some things before about the prelinker at http://www.research.att.com/~leonb/objprelink/ but I wasn't aware it was being used for 2.2.x...
KDE 2.2.1 seems quite a bit quicker than 2.1.x on my testbed (the old K6-2/500MHz, 128MB, 4MB S3 ViRGe/DX), and no noticable swapping going on. I haven't checked the exact memory stats, but it does seem more responsive.
8.0 wasn't the greatest, but I've been running 8.1-rc1 for close to a week now, and I was quite impressed at the improvement. I also had install problems with 8.0, but the betas for 8.1 and the rc1 were much better. I've been a linux user since the SLS days, and have been running mostly Slackware and a little bit of Mandrake on the side... The machine I have 8.1-rc1 on is a 500MHz K6-2 with 128MB and a (blazing fast) 4MB S3-ViRGe/DX (ouch)... X runs well, swap isn't used, and the standard network tools are installed from clicking on the "Network Client" selection in the dummy version install.
It may not be everyone's favorite, but it is gaining quickly in my mind.
I find those work even better if you coat the entire floor with Mobil 1 first... add a pump and filter, and you never have to vacuum, either :)
Yeah, one of the things that AMD could have easily done (though it would have cost a few pennies more per chip) is add an integrated heat spreader (there is one on the K6-2 and I've seen them on plenty of other chips). Not only would it (somewhat) help the thermal problem (though not enough that you could let your heatsink fall off completely), but it would help prevent people from cracking the die if they used the wrong heatsink or were just not careful adding/removing it. Like you mentioned, a lot of heat from a small area can be a Bad Thing(tm), so why not spread it around a little bit?
>OS X supports 99 mouse buttons. So there.
Which is great... everyone I know who has a Mac uses a multi-button mouse (3 or 4, usually)... but why have they continued shipping increasingly outdated and less useful equipment, when most people will just replace it immediately... it was one thing on the old lunchboxes, but there is no reason they shouldn't have been shipping 2/3 button mice for the last several years.
Well, for me, in X w/KDE (on a PC and/or RS/6000, not a Mac)
:)
Left button - use to select text or click on function
Middle button - paste
Right button - context menu, etc
ALT + Left button - Move window
ALT + Middle Button - Resize window
ALT + Right Button - raise/lower (saves the trouble of a click autoraising a window when I don't want it raised, just active. Also quicker to lower it without having to find a border or title bar)
Also, for any CAD programs, one shouldn't be bothered with extra key combinations when buttons are available... two buttons are a minimum for many apps... three makes things so much easier (including web browsing).
What is the obsession with pressing keys to do normal mouse function, anyway?
Well, there don't have the true numbers, but they do speak to how the numbers are caluculated...
:)
IBM eserver x-series (x86) HA whitepaper
i-series (AS/400)
I haven't found great HA stuff for the z-series (mainframes) that I'm allowed to post
How can you work without music?
:P )
Of course, I use a portable CD player, headphone amp, and a nice set of headphones... being on an AIX workstation isn't the ideal mp3 setup from a soundcard standpoint (I do so love that little tinfoil speaker in the front
The PIM with Email is really company dependant (as anyone in a Notes shop will tell you). For home use (where I don't need/use any integrated cal/mail app), I am still using Eudora Pro (and coaxing KMail along).
I really am impressed with Mozilla recently... the latest (.9.4) is working quite reliably for me now on a much wider variety of sites (even with shockwave!).
If you look at Madrake 8.1 (I have RC1 running on my test box right now from the default install), the setup/install is much improved - no intervention required for X setup... all it asks you is the res and color depth you want to run at (they provide decent defaults). Once running, the controls provided allow res/color switches as easily as windows (though there is a disconcerting pause while switching)... X could use a lot of things (from setup to complete re-architecting), but if the distro installers get the installs done properly and provide good config utils, it really helps things along nicely).
I'll agree that upgrading sets of packages isn't always as easy as we'd like... the Mandrake Update tools are nice (I'm sure Ximian has something, but I haven't looked...), and are quite easy to use... auto select update server (granted not always the freshest mirror), lists the packages - user selects, dependencies are (usually) caught, and a while later things are humming. Heck, I updated the kernel that way (I didn't have a lot of faith that would work) and it actually came back up fine. There are distros that focus towards the experienced, power users, and there are those that really do make things amazingly easy for newbies (without sacrificing too much).
Actually, the arcticle says $A160 million... which converts nicely to $41312 million (or $41.312 billion...) Hey, it looks like hex to me :)
>OS/2 is that like half an OS?
:)
Well, sure - you could run it on a PS/2, which some claim was only half of a computer
Speaking of automotive/sports drinks (and maybe synthetic proteins)... the intro video to Command & Conquer (where it pretends to be flipping through channels) has at one point a guy on a skateboard drinking from what looks amazingly like a quart of motor oil... Maybe this story is the herald for that new drink - "Mobilade"
IIRC, you could select any of the install points (Stars next to step names) on the left side of the screen and skip forwards and backwards, so once you reached the 'Configure X' stage, you could mouse over to the next one... not as great as a "please don't put that on my box", but it should work (it worked in previous versions).
That one got me :) Good work (+1; No moderator points).
>Guys like you are hard to find?
Well, that's what my wife says... 8^)
You can't get anything less than Medium-well at Applebees (more real-foodesque than Mc.D, JITB, etc.)... and I'm a medium-rare->rare kind of guy, too (though more on the medium rare section when not at home).
I'm definitely against the idea of another virus/worm, but if the anti-worm resided on a server and only activated in response to a request from an infected server (the reply to the infected server caused the cleanup and patch, plus installed the anti-worm)... it couldn't propogate without provaction, and would slowly eliminate the infected machines. Bandwidth wouldn't go up, since the anti-worm isn't active, only reactive (and only makes one request per attack, which should then prevent further attacks by the attacking box).
Or they could have just posted the announcement in the Science and Apache sections. Many less people, and the S/Nr is much higher. You could get a lot of helpful work done, with less system stress and less pre-paste posting...
Yeah, there are similar issues with some Adobe products (Pagemaker for one). The C:\ and winnt\ dirs had to be world writeable, though no files were ever created there... even if the temp dir and app were on a different partition... smart.
The sarcasm (and my nobody tags) apparently got lost...
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It was 60 seconds, then went to something like 90 though it still said:
Slashdot requires you to wait 1 minutes between each submission of comments.pl in order to allow everyone to have a fair chance to post.
It's been 1 minutes since your last submission!
I love the lack of granularity with that... the new 20 second Reply-->Post is interesting, too. Guess I need to learn to type more, or slower.
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