At least KDE compiles on AIX with little effort. Window Maker is a beast...
KDE isn't really all that 'ugly', and you can customize it to be whatever you want. You don't have to have desktop icons, the panel, etc, etc, etc... it's pretty easy to do...
KWM is faster than WM on my system, too. I've got the space to spare - drives are cheap.
Yeah... but there's a difference, which was my point (and they aren't *that* much of a brand name in consumer electronics).
My concept of 'Name Brand' is probably a little more stringent than some others, though... being a name brand in one area (even semi-related) does not make you a name brand in another (go ahead and argue). I have never seen an ad for a Siemens PC or one for sale in a [CompUSA/CircuitCity/BestBuy/Joe's Comput'o'rama]... 'Brand Name' implys recognition of that company for that product... I've bought Seimens memory sticks before... as Sheriff J.W. Pepper would say, "That ain't no assembled system, boy!"...
Being anal because I'm grouchy on Monday... [Tower]
[ I'm an M$ Money user. Great for what I've needed, and the CD came 'free' with a computer (well, my friend's system, but he uses Quicken, so never instlled this one). I've been using it for a couple years now, and don't want to switch over, but this is one of the last apps tying me to Windows (Eudora and games are the others)... It really does do a good job of stock + account tracking, especially with the automatic updates and tax information. GnuCash seems to only import Quicken files... anybody know if they are planning to import Money files also?
Of course, I use Quicken Turbo Tax on the Web for yearly taxes (free through my Mutual Fund...).
Oh well... (waiting for the day when my NT box can be another Linux or BSD box in my cluster...
And here I thought Quicken was a dumb name all these years 8^) It never did imply anything to me...
I'll agree that GnuCash is a pretty lame name, but hey - programmers aren't usually marketing. That's who names the products... at least it's better than OldCash...
The PowerPC chips are also far more power efficient than the x86 class chips - and have better FPUs to boot. Do ARMs have FPUs (I thought I read that they didn't, but it could have been a taco-induced bad dream)?
When you refer to the 'enviornmentally hostile Crusoe'... how so? The fab (isn't IBM fabbing the chips for them)? Link?
Power varies with the square of the voltage (not exponential, in the truest sense...) that would be 2^V instead of V^2...
The thing that takes long to change state is the wires - charge / discharge. Less voltage = less current to drive the line, which does result in the switching effects not being 'seen' as quickly by the receiver.
If you get a real drive (i.e. Plextor) you don't have this problem. Most of the cheap IDE drives have poor transports and balancing. A Plextor 40x is quieter than most 20x IDE drives (and faster than just about any 40x+ IDE drive). Did I mention it can rip digital audio at 20x?
I don't work for them, I just believe in quality products.
My 10krpm drive uses 20W max... A iPMMX 233 uses ~19W... Some of the P-II line use ~40W. Most drives don't have a fan on them, but even a small fan keeps my drive cooler than the CPU...
Read meat doesn't cause brain tumors... I'd like a pointer to any valid studies that you know about that actually show that read meat causes brain tumors.
Time for me to dig out the old 27Mhz phones... Nobody's on that freq anymore - they all dem newfangled jigahurts stuff. And I won't nuke my brain!
My remote control cars ran on 27 and 45 Mhz - played hell with the phone sometimes... now I just get this popping noise in my 900Mhz phone... only sometimes, but when it does it's about a pop every three or four seconds. Rather annoying.
I just keep it in a/box on the side... that way I can still see them from the front page... science is another nice one to do this to, since some of those are sectioned off, too.
I'll have to give that a try. I had Pro 1 to start, and didn't have another physical copy until 3.x, and it's been net upgrades since... (the 3.x to 4.1 updater, etc...). Guess I'll have to dig out that 3.x CD.
Well, according to some theories, you'd have the whole house net as a private net, and have them all sync from the same box on the network (firewall/router?). I could see that EST/CST problem... But at least then when they say "coming up at 8" it actually *would* be 8... according to the tv. When I lived on the East Coast, I nearly had myself convinced that everyone should just use EST/EDT throughout the lower 48. Now that I'm in MN, I still think that once in a while. Base all time of of NYC. The only was to live.
That would be cool, but that reminds me of another point I've always wondered about... Most clock radios have a 9v battery for time backup. Works well. I've even seen a couple of VCRs with something like this. Why not all VCRs (people seem to have so much trouble programming them), or in this case, microwaves. Maybe just a light rechargable built in. That's all you need (though I would love it if all the clocks in my house (including the analog clocks) were all synched to cesium...
That's just it, I upgraded my Eudora Pro, and it blasted it to ad city... did't work the way it was supposed to. Not that there's anything in 4.3 that was that much of an improvement anyway. Nobody should be sending out HTML styled e-mail, from any client...
Until I have a robot that can make a good ham and cheese sandwich, I would have no use for a remote microwave... or a toaster (what, do I keep it filled with bread (getting stale)?). Windows, shades/drapes/blinds, lights... those sorts of things seem useful, but most kitchen appliances require human intervention to work anyway (prepare the food and place it in the unit - turn over halfway through - baste - etc...).
What would be the advantage of controlling my uWave from my office? Maybe if it had an automatic popcorn loading mechanism, but even that requires that you monitor the bag closely during the end of the popping. Decent quality video/audio streaming, networking and cooking from a $50-150 device? Hmmm...
I've been using Eudora since Pro v1... and versions 3 and 4 are *far* more stable on NT than on 95/8... It doesn't crash anymore. Netscape Mail has been going downhill in Netscape4. Netscape 3 had a far superior Mail and News interface. I hate when they ruin good things... Like the new Eudora Pro 4.3. Upgraded my 4.2 (backed up first), and now it's some whack version that streams ads while I'm reading e-mail, and requires me to register/pay *again*. Hello? This is still version *4*, right? So... copy it back over, and I'm running happily at 4.2.2 (or something like that)...
I used Microsft Mail (when 95 first came out). That sucked. Then it became Outlook... even worse - they took away Schedule+ and combined it. Now Outlook is even worse than Lotus Notes...
On my linux box, I use Pine and Kmail (not overly impressed). I'll probably try to get Eudora running in Wine. If it is stable, that's one less thing I need to hold on to Windows for (MS Money - believe it or not - is another. A rather nice program).
There is part of the argument, and some of the rest I've mentioned elsewhere - negative publicity for the company. As I've also mentioned elsewhere - drug use *will* affect his performance, if not immediately.
I mentioned before that you don't just toss a guy out because something came up - you talk to him about it, if you wanted to give him the job before. If it was a while ago, and you want to give him another chance, you have that ability. If you don't, same thing. I'm not suggesting background checks for every job (burger flipper, electrician, sales, marketing;-D), but there certainly are jobs that warrant it. If you are going to put someone in a position of great trust (say, daycare), or give them access to sensitive information (Lockheed, etc), it should be more than welcomed. Hell, I want anyone in the schools or daycare systems to be checked out. If they have a felony from any sort of violent crime, I'd probably not hire them, but a felony because 10 years ago at the age of 16, they doubled the speed limit in their friend's Camaro, that can certainly be forgiven. Different situations call for different measures. Your workplace may not require the same things as others. That's ok. I'm all for giving people second chances, and they should be treated on an individual basis, but you shouldn't just ignore any history they may have had. It might be relevant (and don't launch in to 'we should search his home for porn, it may be relevant... we should tap his phone, it may be relevant'. Search the things that are a matter of public record. Not really prying. Anybody with an afternoon or three and a little bit of experience could do it - why not check things out.
If he was a former user, and now is clean, I'd be more than happy to give him a job if he's qualified. I'd like to help out those who aren't clean yet, but not necessarily in the context of working for MyCorp. There's a difference.
Note that PR is a big part of corps, too. Oh look - MegaFooCorp hires rapist, community outraged. National Bad Publicity. I haven't mentioned anything that takes away anyones right to anything. Certainly not the draconian measures you (rather sarcastically) mentioned. My company tested me, performed a background check, yet gives me flex time, and encourages personal life more than other places I've worked. They suggest that having a comfortable home life makes you more productive (something about not being pissed off at your place of work quite as much).
I said it before, and I'll repeat it. These are all pre-employment measures, not during a person's tenure at a job. I would find that troubling and unfair - it would make me turn down a position.
That the great thing about personal beliefs and opinion - everyone has their own.
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At least KDE compiles on AIX with little effort. Window Maker is a beast...
KDE isn't really all that 'ugly', and you can customize it to be whatever you want. You don't have to have desktop icons, the panel, etc, etc, etc... it's pretty easy to do...
KWM is faster than WM on my system, too. I've got the space to spare - drives are cheap.
Yeah... but there's a difference, which was my point (and they aren't *that* much of a brand name in consumer electronics).
My concept of 'Name Brand' is probably a little more stringent than some others, though... being a name brand in one area (even semi-related) does not make you a name brand in another (go ahead and argue). I have never seen an ad for a Siemens PC or one for sale in a [CompUSA/CircuitCity/BestBuy/Joe's Comput'o'rama]... 'Brand Name' implys recognition of that company for that product... I've bought Seimens memory sticks before... as Sheriff J.W. Pepper would say, "That ain't no assembled system, boy!"...
Being anal because I'm grouchy on Monday... [Tower]
[
I'm an M$ Money user. Great for what I've needed, and the CD came 'free' with a computer (well, my friend's system, but he uses Quicken, so never instlled this one). I've been using it for a couple years now, and don't want to switch over, but this is one of the last apps tying me to Windows (Eudora and games are the others)... It really does do a good job of stock + account tracking, especially with the automatic updates and tax information. GnuCash seems to only import Quicken files... anybody know if they are planning to import Money files also?
Of course, I use Quicken Turbo Tax on the Web for yearly taxes (free through my Mutual Fund...).
Oh well... (waiting for the day when my NT box can be another Linux or BSD box in my cluster...
And here I thought Quicken was a dumb name all these years 8^) It never did imply anything to me...
I'll agree that GnuCash is a pretty lame name, but hey - programmers aren't usually marketing. That's who names the products...
at least it's better than OldCash...
cat /dev/random > /dev/lp0
The PowerPC chips are also far more power efficient than the x86 class chips - and have better FPUs to boot. Do ARMs have FPUs (I thought I read that they didn't, but it could have been a taco-induced bad dream)?
When you refer to the 'enviornmentally hostile Crusoe'... how so? The fab (isn't IBM fabbing the chips for them)? Link?
Huh... didn't know Siemens was a 'name brand PC'. They are a name brand. Never heard of them as a system assembler...
Power varies with the square of the voltage (not exponential, in the truest sense...) that would be 2^V instead of V^2...
The thing that takes long to change state is the wires - charge / discharge. Less voltage = less current to drive the line, which does result in the switching effects not being 'seen' as quickly by the receiver.
If you get a real drive (i.e. Plextor) you don't have this problem. Most of the cheap IDE drives have poor transports and balancing. A Plextor 40x is quieter than most 20x IDE drives (and faster than just about any 40x+ IDE drive). Did I mention it can rip digital audio at 20x?
I don't work for them, I just believe in quality products.
My 10krpm drive uses 20W max... A iPMMX 233 uses ~19W... Some of the P-II line use ~40W. Most drives don't have a fan on them, but even a small fan keeps my drive cooler than the CPU...
Poor Bart, always chooses rock...
Read meat doesn't cause brain tumors... I'd like a pointer to any valid studies that you know about that actually show that read meat causes brain tumors.
Time for me to dig out the old 27Mhz phones... Nobody's on that freq anymore - they all dem newfangled jigahurts stuff. And I won't nuke my brain!
My remote control cars ran on 27 and 45 Mhz - played hell with the phone sometimes... now I just get this popping noise in my 900Mhz phone... only sometimes, but when it does it's about a pop every three or four seconds. Rather annoying.
It's just like gas prices... 'cept those don't go back down to $.35/gal....
I just keep it in a /box on the side... that way I can still see them from the front page... science is another nice one to do this to, since some of those are sectioned off, too.
I'll have to give that a try. I had Pro 1 to start, and didn't have another physical copy until 3.x, and it's been net upgrades since... (the 3.x to 4.1 updater, etc...). Guess I'll have to dig out that 3.x CD.
Well, according to some theories, you'd have the whole house net as a private net, and have them all sync from the same box on the network (firewall/router?). I could see that EST/CST problem... But at least then when they say "coming up at 8" it actually *would* be 8... according to the tv. When I lived on the East Coast, I nearly had myself convinced that everyone should just use EST/EDT throughout the lower 48. Now that I'm in MN, I still think that once in a while. Base all time of of NYC. The only was to live.
Might I remind you that real IT people are technically aware - IT should mean CS/EE/CE, not MBA...
This site is for whoever wants to be here, and it started (and continues mostly) with 'geeks' and 'nerds' (ever read the slogan).
Relax, we're not against you (well, we might not be if you'd log in...)
That would be cool, but that reminds me of another point I've always wondered about... Most clock radios have a 9v battery for time backup. Works well. I've even seen a couple of VCRs with something like this. Why not all VCRs (people seem to have so much trouble programming them), or in this case, microwaves. Maybe just a light rechargable built in. That's all you need (though I would love it if all the clocks in my house (including the analog clocks) were all synched to cesium...
That's just it, I upgraded my Eudora Pro, and it blasted it to ad city... did't work the way it was supposed to. Not that there's anything in 4.3 that was that much of an improvement anyway. Nobody should be sending out HTML styled e-mail, from any client...
>Blowfish was published in 1993, while Neither Blowfish nor Serpent
The second time, you meant Twofish - right?
Until I have a robot that can make a good ham and cheese sandwich, I would have no use for a remote microwave... or a toaster (what, do I keep it filled with bread (getting stale)?). Windows, shades/drapes/blinds, lights... those sorts of things seem useful, but most kitchen appliances require human intervention to work anyway (prepare the food and place it in the unit - turn over halfway through - baste - etc...).
What would be the advantage of controlling my uWave from my office? Maybe if it had an automatic popcorn loading mechanism, but even that requires that you monitor the bag closely during the end of the popping. Decent quality video/audio streaming, networking and cooking from a $50-150 device? Hmmm...
I've been using Eudora since Pro v1... and versions 3 and 4 are *far* more stable on NT than on 95/8... It doesn't crash anymore. Netscape Mail has been going downhill in Netscape4. Netscape 3 had a far superior Mail and News interface. I hate when they ruin good things... Like the new Eudora Pro 4.3. Upgraded my 4.2 (backed up first), and now it's some whack version that streams ads while I'm reading e-mail, and requires me to register/pay *again*. Hello? This is still version *4*, right? So... copy it back over, and I'm running happily at 4.2.2 (or something like that)...
I used Microsft Mail (when 95 first came out). That sucked. Then it became Outlook... even worse - they took away Schedule+ and combined it. Now Outlook is even worse than Lotus Notes...
On my linux box, I use Pine and Kmail (not overly impressed). I'll probably try to get Eudora running in Wine. If it is stable, that's one less thing I need to hold on to Windows for (MS Money - believe it or not - is another. A rather nice program).
>does it without annoying other employees
;-D), but there certainly are jobs that warrant it. If you are going to put someone in a position of great trust (say, daycare), or give them access to sensitive information (Lockheed, etc), it should be more than welcomed. Hell, I want anyone in the schools or daycare systems to be checked out. If they have a felony from any sort of violent crime, I'd probably not hire them, but a felony because 10 years ago at the age of 16, they doubled the speed limit in their friend's Camaro, that can certainly be forgiven. Different situations call for different measures. Your workplace may not require the same things as others. That's ok. I'm all for giving people second chances, and they should be treated on an individual basis, but you shouldn't just ignore any history they may have had. It might be relevant (and don't launch in to 'we should search his home for porn, it may be relevant... we should tap his phone, it may be relevant'. Search the things that are a matter of public record. Not really prying. Anybody with an afternoon or three and a little bit of experience could do it - why not check things out.
There is part of the argument, and some of the rest I've mentioned elsewhere - negative publicity for the company. As I've also mentioned elsewhere - drug use *will* affect his performance, if not immediately.
I mentioned before that you don't just toss a guy out because something came up - you talk to him about it, if you wanted to give him the job before. If it was a while ago, and you want to give him another chance, you have that ability. If you don't, same thing. I'm not suggesting background checks for every job (burger flipper, electrician, sales, marketing
If he was a former user, and now is clean, I'd be more than happy to give him a job if he's qualified. I'd like to help out those who aren't clean yet, but not necessarily in the context of working for MyCorp. There's a difference.
Note that PR is a big part of corps, too. Oh look - MegaFooCorp hires rapist, community outraged. National Bad Publicity. I haven't mentioned anything that takes away anyones right to anything. Certainly not the draconian measures you (rather sarcastically) mentioned. My company tested me, performed a background check, yet gives me flex time, and encourages personal life more than other places I've worked. They suggest that having a comfortable home life makes you more productive (something about not being pissed off at your place of work quite as much).
I said it before, and I'll repeat it. These are all pre-employment measures, not during a person's tenure at a job. I would find that troubling and unfair - it would make me turn down a position.
That the great thing about personal beliefs and opinion - everyone has their own.